Spearhead

This spearhead has a slender leaf shaped blade, common to those found in the area, which has been broken into two. From the late Bronze Age, this example has a hollow circular shaft which tapers to an oval shaped tip. The deliberate breaking of weapon blades, both for spears and swords, is a feature noted in Bronze Age deposits. A similar phenomenon also occurs in the late Iron Age, and in sone Anglo-Saxon burials.