Find Spot record 0012500000 - RIVER MISBOURNE

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Bronze Age metalwork found digging in river bank

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FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

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Dimensions - Length 0146 mm Width 0024
Plan Form - OGIVAL
FOUND DURING DIGGING IN RIVER BANK AT MESSRS BRAZIL, LONDON ROAD,AMERSHAM BY MR D PEARSON, GIVEN BY MR L E PIKE (B5). DATES TO MBA 2 (B2). WITH SIDE LOOPS, LOZENGE SECTION MIDRIB. ROWLANDS GROUP 2 (B2). EHRENBERG CLASS IV (B3). DRAWING & PHOTO FILED (B4).
Only incident of note along section 7/6 of the River Misbourne (B8).

Middle Bronze Age Spearhead, 5 7/8" long with pair of loops half way down socket, from bed of River Misbourne at Messrs. Bragiss, London Road, Amersham. Donated by Mr. L.E. Pike, 8.5.57. Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury: Ass. No. 15.57 (B9).

This spearhead was found at SU 9619 9722 early in 1956 by Mr. D. Pearson, a maintenance man at Bragis's factory, who picked it out of the river silt excavated from a hole being dug beside the present course of the River Misbourne. Find spot pointed out by the finder. A 25" AM Survey has been carried out (B10).

Ehrenberg describes this spearhead as: tip bent; string side loops; ogival blade with lozenge-section midrib; slight traces of casting flashes on side of socket. 148 x 24mm. Class IV (B3).

NRHE update 1997 (B11).

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<1>SBC7422 Bibliographic reference: LETTER FROM MR L E PIKE JUNE 1955, FILED.
<2>SBC13833 Bibliographic reference: ROWLANDS M J 1976 PRODUCTIONANDDISTRIBUTIONOFMETALWORKINTHEMIDDL-EBRONZEAGE"BARBRITSER31,PP49-63,361.
<3>SBC4514 Bibliographic reference: M R Ehrenburg. 1977. BRONZE AGE SPEARHEADS FROM BERKSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND OXFORDSHIRE, IN BAR BRIT SER 34 P301 NO.7 FIG 10 (7).
<4>SBC2515 Bibliographic reference: CAS ENVELOPE FILE 0125..
<5>SBC968 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER 1953 TO 1960, 15.57..
<6>SBC4387 Bibliographic reference: DRAWING, COPY OF BMUS ORIGINAL, IN CAS ENVELOPE FILE 0125..
<7>SBC11839 Photograph: PHOTO ARCHIVAL, (MONO), IN CAS ENVELOPE FILE 0125.
<8>SBC20011 Unpublished document: Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2001. Chilterns Chalk Streams Project: Chess & Misbourne Valleys - Archaeological Assessment.
<9>SBC10064 Map: OLD MUSEUM 6 INCH RECORD MAP.
<10>SBC28387 Verbal communication: C F Wardale (Ordnance Survey Field Investigator). 1960. Field Investigators Comments - CFW 01-FEB-60.
<11>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference	SU 96190 97220 (point)
Civil Parish	AMERSHAM, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

SPEAR (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

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Event - Intervention: (EBC130)

Record last edited

Nov 17 2025 12:41PM