Find Spot record 0156202000 - THAMES AT TAPLOW MILLS

Summary

Bronze Age metalwork from the River Thames at Taplow Mills

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Dimensions - Length 437mm.
BRONZE SPEAR-HEAD, RAPIER-LIKE SHAPE. SOCKET, WITH REMAINS OF WOODEN SHAFT, BROKEN: ORIGINAL LENGTH OF SPEARHEAD ?600MM. TAPERING SOCKET PROLONGED TO POINT, & RIDGED. WINGED BASE OF BLADE DECORATED WITH 2 CONICAL GOLD STUDS ON EACH FACE (B3,B5-10).
ILLUS(B6-9).
DREDGED FROM BELOW BOULTERS LOCK (B5).

Sources (7)

  • <3>SBC11410 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARDS SU 98 SW 59 (SPEARHEAD); SU 98 SW 48 (POLISHED GREEN AXE).(NOT RETAINED).
  • <5>SBC1693 Bibliographic reference: BERKS, BUCKS & OXON. ARCH JNL.9 1903 PP87-88.
  • <6>SBC14749 Bibliographic reference: SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON PROCEEDINGS 2ND S ERIES 19 1901-03 PP287-289.
  • <7>SBC20460 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1905. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume I. Volume 1. pp184-185.
  • <8>SBC13619 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 9 1909 PP438-440.
  • <9>SBC1910 Bibliographic reference: BRITISH MUSEUM: LATER PREHISTORIC ANTIQUITIES OF T HE BRITISH ISLES 1953 P30 & FIG 10:8.
  • <10>SBC421 Bibliographic reference: ALLEN J ROMILLY 1904 CELTIC ART IN PAGAN & CHRISTI AN TIMES P40.

Location

Grid reference SU 90400 82000 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • SPEAR (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12726)

Record last edited

May 22 2022 8:43PM

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