The elongated leaf-shaped blade with a prominent midrib tapers to a sharp tip. The hollow shaft is perforated for attachment with an iron rivet.
With David Miller, London, circa 2001 With Charles Ede Limited, 2003 UK private collection, acquired in 2003
spear was the dominant weapon of the period found sometimes singly and
sometimes in groups. Most spearheads, including this example, seem to have been
attached to the shank by an iron rivet that passed through holes in the socket
below the wings of the blade. Not many rivets survive intact. For
similar examples in the British Museum, cf. I.M. Stead, V. Rigby, The Morel Collection. Iron Age Antiquities
from Champagne in the British Museum, London, 1999, p. 121.