Description

Summary: Socketed spearhead with central ridge, a narrow moulded collar and a split from the rivet hole to the mouth, from the Spoil heap, Melksham By-pass, Melksham.

Research results

A copper alloy spear, found in 1972 amongst material excavated during the construction of the Melksham by-pass as part of a hoard of Llyn Fawr and earlier metalwork, with the latest objects suggesting deposition in the earliest Iron Age.

The Melksham hoard has been photographed by Boughton (2019), who notes that it is one of only two Llyn Fawr hoards known in the country to not contain a socketed axehead.