Hunterian Museum Object 104226: GLAHM:B.1914.324 - SPEAR-HEAD, Sweening Voe, Lunnasting, Shetland
Description
- Description
- Socketed bronze spear head with lozenge-to-leaf-shaped blade and three converging ridges on each face, as well as a pair of flattened side-loops for attachment. Probably dating to the latter part of the Middle Bronze Age. Found when cutting peat on the east side of Sweening Voe at Lunnasting, at a depth of 4-5 feet (1.3-1.6m).
- Object Number
- GLAHM:B.1914.324
- Object Name/Type(s)
- spear-head
- Material
- copper alloy
Dimensions
- Height
- None recorded.
- Width
- None recorded.
Provenance & Acquisition
- Collection / Collected By
- Hughson
- Collection Method
- None recorded.
- Locality
- Sweening Voe, Lunnasting, Shetland, Scotland
- Acquisition
- Mr Andrew Henderson Bishop (Donor) 1914
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