IRON AGE MINIATURE OBJECT
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

IRON AGE MINIATURE OBJECT

-400

CC0 — Public Domain
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Cast copper alloy miniature socketed spearhead.The spearhead is leaf-shaped and is missing most of its shaft, although at the top the broken section is rounded suggesting that it was once socketed.The blade has no mid-rib, and the tip is missing.Miniature spears are difficult to date although they are thought to range from circa 400BC to the mid-late 1st century AD.

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