1st millennium BC. A hand-forged iron spearhead with lentoid-section tapering two-edged blade, flange wings to the neck, broad socket with fixing holes. See Ehrenberg, M. Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977 for discussion of type. 715 grams, 58.4cm (23"). From the family collection of a South East London collector; formerly acquired in the 1960s. The spearhead resembles in shape and overall design the bronze example from Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, of Middle Bronze Age date (British Museum accession number 1903,0623.1"). The iron construction indicates a date at least 1000 years later than that item, in the late 1st millennium BC.