Wideopen, bronze spearhead

HER Number:
780

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wideopen, bronze spearhead

Place:
Wideopen

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Spear

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
The tip of a socketed spearhead was found in Wideopen before 1960, and presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Mr. P. Nicholson. Its surviving length is 127 mm, max. width 46 mm.

Easting:
24

Northing:
72

Grid Reference:
NZ2472

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 780 >> D.J. Smith, 1963, Museum Notes, 1963, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLI, p. 220 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 47-8, fig. 15, no. 4