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Early Anglo-Saxon iron spear
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Lincolnshire County Council, Adam Daubney, 2017-09-19 14:07:52
Title
Early Anglo-Saxon iron spear
Description
English: An Early Anglo-Saxon iron spear, dating circa 550-650. The spear has a lozenge shaped tapering blade with an incomplete conical shaft. The shaft is not fully rounded. The blade expands diagonally outwards from the socket to form the widest point of the blade. The blade then appears to taper inwards again, giving the blade an overal diamond shape. The top half of the blade is missing.

The spear measures 160mm in length. The blade measures 28mm in width at the widest point. The socket measures 13mm in diameter at the break.

An attempt was made to classify and date this weapon using the system defined in Bayliss and Hines (2013, 163-170) but the spear is too incomplete to define it with any confidence.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 550 and 650
Accession number
FindID: 865766
Old ref: LIN-11548B
Filename: LIN11548B.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/630267
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/630267/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/865766
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