Product Description
Late Bronze Age c.900-700 B.C. A large and stunning Bronze Age, bronze socketed Spear head excavated on the Battesea foreshore of the River Thames in London in 1953. Old inked inscription citing find location and year on side of spear socket. [Ex Simon Cam collection, Cornwall]. Most likely a votive deposition piece as a number of similar but far less impressive examples have been excavated from the silts on banks of the Thames in past years. A beautiful piece in almost as good condition now as when it was originally cast almost three millennia ago. 165mm long x 47mm wide., socket 25mm diameter,
