alpine socketed spearhead

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Description

Summary: 1 Socketed spearhead of Alpine type with 3 sets of 3 rings around body and 2 opposing chevrons at neck, from the Spoil heap, Melksham By-pass, Melksham.

Research results

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.


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