River Tyne, bronze spearhead
River Tyne, bronze spearhead
HER Number
1422
District
Newcastle
Site Name
River Tyne, bronze spearhead
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Sockethead Spearhead
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A bronze spearhead recovered from the Tyne above the bridge in Newcastle in 1867. Formerly in the possession of R. Blair, it was listed by Canon Greenwell in 1887, and became part of his collection which later passed to the British Museum. The object, 401 mm long, 60 mm max. width, is described as a "Plain pegged spearhead with long, slender, leaf-shaped blade. Peg-holes have been broken off with end of socket. Point bent".
Easting
425200
Northing
563700
Grid Reference
NZ425200563700
Sources
<< HER 1422 >> W. Greenwell, 1889, Ancient British Implements of Bronze, etc. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, III (for 1887-88), 309
W. Greenwell in W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 207
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Prehistoric Period, Northumberland County History, XIII, pp. 20, 22, no. 18
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 43, and fig. 14 p. 46, no. 8
W. Greenwell in W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 207
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Prehistoric Period, Northumberland County History, XIII, pp. 20, 22, no. 18
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 43, and fig. 14 p. 46, no. 8