Ryton Willows, bronze spearhead

A bronze spearhead, with leaf-shaped blade, was found in a gravel bed opposite Ryton Willows in 1899, and exhibited by the Rev. Johnson Baily, rector of Ryton, at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle in June that year. Its length was given as 10 in (253 mm), max. width 2 in (51 mm), length of blade 7.5 in (190 mm) and there were said to be the remains of the wooden shaft in the socket.