Wideopen, bronze spearhead
Wideopen, bronze spearhead
HER Number
780
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Wideopen, bronze spearhead
Place
Wideopen
Map Sheet
NZ27SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Socketed Spearhead
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
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
424000
Northing
572000
Grid Reference
NZ424000572000
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
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 47-8, fig. 15, no. 4