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:Current Location- London Museum: A 23352 | :Current Location- London Museum: A 23352 | ||
:Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | :Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | ||
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:Current Location- London Museum: A 23348 | :Current Location- London Museum: A 23348 | ||
:Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | :Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | ||
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:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.10 (image), p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77] | :Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.10 (image), p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77] | ||
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:Current Location- London Museum: A 23350 | :Current Location- London Museum: A 23350 | ||
:Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | :Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | ||
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: ''"has slight traces of a zigzag strip of inlay down each side of the central rib."''[WHEELER 1927:p.20] | : ''"has slight traces of a zigzag strip of inlay down each side of the central rib."''[WHEELER 1927:p.20] | ||
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.11 (image), p.20, p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77] | :Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.11 (image), p.20, p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77] | ||
+ | ::*[http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-Research/Collections-online/object.aspx?objectID=object-36933&rows=1&start=10&sort=summaryTitle%20asc London Museum] | ||
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:Current Location- London Museum: A 23351 | :Current Location- London Museum: A 23351 | ||
:Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | :Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | ||
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::Socket- fragment of wooden shaft in socket [WHEELER 1927:p.23] | ::Socket- fragment of wooden shaft in socket [WHEELER 1927:p.23] | ||
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:Current Location- London Museum: A 23349 | :Current Location- London Museum: A 23349 | ||
:Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | :Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | ||
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:slight moulding at base of blade | :slight moulding at base of blade | ||
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.13 (image), p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77] | :Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.13 (image), p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77] | ||
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:Current Location- London Museum: A 23353 | :Current Location- London Museum: A 23353 | ||
:Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | :Find Type- River find. Part of a group of 16 items including 6 type k spearheads. Dated to the early C11th. | ||
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:socket covered with alternating silver and copper chevrons.[BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84] This type of decoration is known mainly from Norway.[GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:p.73] | :socket covered with alternating silver and copper chevrons.[BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84] This type of decoration is known mainly from Norway.[GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:p.73] | ||
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 fig.49 (image)] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and KIDD 1980:p.115 fig.63] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:p.73 fig.259] | :Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 fig.49 (image)] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and KIDD 1980:p.115 fig.63] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:p.73 fig.259] | ||
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Revision as of 20:38, 24 April 2013
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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
- Current location
- Find Type: Grave, Hoard, River or Stray
- Find Date
- 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, Hesket-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, Hesket-in-Forest, near Carlisle
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Petersen Type K
England, Yorkshire, Camphill near Bedale
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Isle of Man, Balladoyne
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England, Cambridgeshire, Ely
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England, Surry, Sunbury Weir
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England, Berkshire, Cookham
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England, London, Thames at Kingston
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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, Old London Bridge
The lower end of the socket is damaged. but can be to some extent reconstructed from a strikingly similar spearhead found at Hyilestad, north of Bergen in Norway."[WHEELER 1927:p.20] Wheeler identifies the decoration as Ringerike.
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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, Thames at Ditton
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England, London
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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 [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: P.12]
- West Ham, near Basingstoke, Hants, England. Possibly Saxon [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: P.15]
- Claughton Hall, near Gortstaug, Lancashire, England (Lost) [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: P.18]
- Ballaugh, Isle of Man (Lost) [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: P.22]
- Boiden, near the lower Bridge of Froon, Scotland (Lost) The spear-head is 11 in. long and 2 in. broad.
Winged
- Ballachrink, Jurby, Isle of Man: base of socket has wings [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940: P.25]
References
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