Blaydon, River Tyne, bronze spearhead

HER Number:
597

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon, River Tyne, bronze spearhead

Place:
Blaydon

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Spear

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
A bronze spearhead was dredged from the Tyne near Blaydon, and bought for the Society of Antiquaries in 1864. It is a side-looped spearhead with leaf-shaped blade and measures 194 mm long x 53 mm max. width x 23 mm max. diameter of socket.

Easting:
184

Northing:
636

Grid Reference:
NZ184636

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 597 >> Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1885, Purchase, Vol. 2, I (for 1882-4), p. 355 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 1889, Ancient British Implements of Bronze etc., Vol. 2, III (for 1887-8), p. 309 Archaeologia Aeliana, 1909, LXI, p. 234, fig. 60 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 24, and fig. 6, p. 28, no. 12