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Bronze Age spearhead and worked flints findspot

{1} A fine bronze spearhead of M.B.A. type (illustrated) was ploughed up in a limestone area. It has two lozenge-shaped loops, each decorated with a line around the edge. The damaged butt is decorated with a series of adjoining lozenges executed in shallow pin-pricks surviving only in the dull green patina. Length 13.5cm, but the tip is missing. As of January 1972 it is on loan to Northampton Museum. A perambulation of the field produced two white patinated cores, two scrapers and a worked flint flake, the flints were not concentrated in any one area.

{2} Find of 1970-71. Middle Bronze Age looped spearhead found during ploughing, with two lozenge-shaped loops each decorated with a line around the edge. The damaged butt is decorated with a series of adjoining lozenges in shallow pin-pricks. From SP70726088. Fieldwalking recovered five prehistoric worked flints, from the same field as a spearhead. SP70726088.

<1> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1972, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1971, p.6 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN59984.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.401 (checked) (Series). SNN77383.

<3> Shaw M.; Williams J., 1971-1981, Northampton Development Corporation SMR Record Cards, P144 (Index). SNN133.

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