Birtley, bronze spearhead
Birtley, bronze spearhead
HER Number
              656
          District
              Gateshead
          Site Name
              Birtley, bronze spearhead
          Place
              Birtley
          Map Sheet
              NZ25NE
          Class
              Monument <By Form>
          Site Type: Broad
              Findspot
          Site Type: Specific
              Socketed Spearhead
          General Period
              PREHISTORIC
          Specific Period
              Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
          Form of Evidence
              Find
          Description
              In c. 1931-2 A. Raistrick found a bronze spearhead at the Birtley claypits; it was one of several prehistoric objects recovered by him from that general area in the early 1930s. It measured 172 mm long, with a maximum width of 38 mm and socket width of 22 mm.
          Easting
              426620
          Northing
              555885
          Grid Reference
              NZ426620555885
    Sources
              << HER 656 >>   R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 32 no. 5, p. 121 plate 3.1