Bronze Hook-Tanged Spear

Bronze Hook-Tanged Spear

Description:

Bronze spear-head or 'hook-tanged weapon'; cast and hammered; the blade has heart-shaped shoulders (possibly chiseled) and tapers smoothly inwards to the tip; low mid-rib; round-sectioned tang ending in a hook; metal very corroded.


Dimensions: Length: 29.50 centimetres max


Object Type: spear-head; weapon


Series: Catling Type A.1.c


Techniques: cast; hammered

Period:

Middle Bronze Age I

Date:

1950 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Klavdia

Accession Number:

1899,1229.58