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It has also been suggested by Fuglesang and Petersen that type G spearheads without wings may be of eastern origin with the majority of finds coming from Sweden and Finland. A few decorated type G spears have been found with Urnes style decoration.<br> | It has also been suggested by Fuglesang and Petersen that type G spearheads without wings may be of eastern origin with the majority of finds coming from Sweden and Finland. A few decorated type G spears have been found with Urnes style decoration.<br> | ||
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+ | |width="600pt"| '''England, ?''' | ||
+ | :Current Location- British Museum: No. 22 | ||
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+ | :Bibliography- [STEPHENSON 2007] | ||
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+ | :Current Location- British Museum: No. 21 | ||
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+ | :Bronze socket of spearhead from Farnham, Pitt Rivers Museum C11th. This type of spearhead could be considered to be an eastern (Finish) type except for this find from York and another from the British Museum. | ||
+ | :Bibliography- [FUGLESANG 1980:fig.3] [LANG 1981] [KENDRICK 1949:pl.LXIX] | ||
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More Found in Britain pages
The catalogue follows Thålin groups and then subdivided by Petersen's [PETERSEN 1919] types. Winged spearheads have been ground together in their own section and also include finds from outside of Britain. Each entry consists of the following components:
- Find Location
- Find Type: Grave, Hoard, River or Stray
- Current location
- Dimensions (if known)
- Any other information
- Bibliography of other published references.
Dimensions are given where known and can be stated in either imperial or metric measurements. Reference is sometimes made to Rygh types. Rygh’s [RYGH 1885] book illustrates examples of many pre-historic objects from Norway. These are designated as R.xxx where xxx is Rygh’s figure number.
Thålin Group 1
Leaf-shaped Spearheads (Pre 900AD)
Petersen Types A-E
Group 1 consists of Petersen types A, B, C, D1 and E. They are all types with a lancoid blade and gradual transition from socket to blade.
Petersen Type D1
England, Cambridgeshire, Braham's Farm
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England, London, Wandsworth
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England, Yorkshire, River Ouse
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England, Yorkshire, River Ouse
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Petersen Type E
England, Hertfordshire, Nazing
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England, London, Thames
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Thålin Group 2
Angular Spearheads with Short Sockets (950-1075AD)
Petersen Types D2, G & H
Group 2 consists of Petersen types D:2, G and H. They are all types with edge shoulders placed low on the blade and a short conical socket with marked narrowing below the blade.
Fuglesang includes the winged spears of Petersens type D2 in with this group as he removed wings as a determinant of typology making Petersens D2 and G types the same. See the section on ‘Winged Spears’ for examples of D2 style spear heads.
It has also been suggested by Fuglesang and Petersen that type G spearheads without wings may be of eastern origin with the majority of finds coming from Sweden and Finland. A few decorated type G spears have been found with Urnes style decoration.
Petersen Type D2
England, ?
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England, ?
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England, York
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Petersen Type G
England, London, Thames at Hampton Court
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England, London, Walthamstow
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Petersen Type H
In most ways the same as type G except for the moulding at the base of the blade.
England, Cambridgeshire, Soham
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England, Cambridgeshire, Ely
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England, Cambridgeshire, River Cam at Dimmock's Cote nr. Upware
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No Picture | England, Lincolnshire, River Witham at Lincoln
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Thålin Group 3
Angular Spearheads with Long Sockets from Britain (840-1100AD)
Petersen types F, I, K & M
Group 3 consists of Petersen types F, I, K & M. They are all types with a narrow blade which is often shouldered and a socket that is long, narrow and conical.
Fuglesang has studied the K & M types of spearhead that are decorated in Ringerike designs. Due to difficulty in determining the exact typology of many of these spearheads she has introduced a new K/M type that falls between those of Petersens K and M [FUGLESANG 1980].
Petersen Type F
Type F spearheads generally have a length of 30-60cm with most being between 50-60cm. Petersen classes this a very numerous type in Norway [PETERSEN 1919].
England, Cumberland, Hasket-in-Forest, near Carlisle
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England, Oxfordshire, River Thames
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Petersen Type I
The socket commonly has 11 pairs of holes originally with bronze rivets. Some have up to 15 pairs of holes. Petersen classes these as not numerous in Norway [PETERSEN 1919].
England, Cumberland, Hasket-in-Forest, near Carlisle
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Petersen Type K
England, London, Old London Bridge
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England, London, Old London Bridge
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England, London, Old London Bridge
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England, London, Old London Bridge
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England, London, Old London Bridge
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England, London, Old London Bridge
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England, London, Putney
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England, London, nr. Tate Gallery
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England, London, Thames River
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England, London
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England, London
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England, London
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England, Yorkshire, Camphill near Bedale
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England, Cambridgeshire, Ely
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Isle of Man, Balladoyne
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Petersen Type M
England, Essex, Nazing
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England, London, Thames Street
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England, London
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England, Kidlington, River Cherwell
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England, Hertfordshire, Lugg Mills
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England, London, Thames at Datchet
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Unclassified Spearheads
The following spearheads are referenced but have both no associated image and no type mentioned.
- Magdalen Bridge, Oxford, England (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.12)
- West Ham, near Basingstoke, Hants, England. Possibly Saxon (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.15)
- Claughton Hall, near Gortstaug, Lancashire, England (Lost) (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.18)
- Ballaugh, Isle of Man (Lost) (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.22)
- Boiden, near the lower Bridge of Froon, Scotland (Lost) The spear-head is 11 in. long and 2 in. broad.
References
<nocite> BJORN1940 FUGLESANG1980 MORRIS1983 PETERSEN1919 RYGH1885 WHEELER1927 WHEELER1935 WOV </nocite> <biblio force=false>#Template:Bib</biblio>