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Findspot - Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead

Summary Find spot - a bronze socketed spearhead dating to the Bronze Age. It was found 50m south east of Broomey Croft Farm.
What Is It?  
Type: Findspot
Period: Late Bronze Age (1200 BC - 601 BC)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Kingsbury
District: North Warwickshire, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 20 97
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
Source Number  

1 Bronze socketed spearhead. Found in Browningcroft. Now in Birmingham Museum. Grid reference SP2196 given with no indication of source.
2 A bronze spearhead from Kingsbury, in Birmingham Museum (Acc No 149'85). The actual provenance of this spearhead is open to some question. It was acquired in the late 19th century as part of the Staunton Collection. It was listed as having come from Browning croft, Kingsbury. However, it seems likely that the find spot was Broomey croft (grid reference above).
4 Bronze spearhead, socketed, side looped, probably leaf shaped.
 
Sources
Source No: 4
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title:
Author/originator: Vine P M
Date: 1982
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Volume/Sheet: Neo and BA Cultures
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Drawing
Title: TBAS vol 88
Author/originator: Various
Date: 1978
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 86
Author/originator: Thomas N
Date: 1974
Page Number: 32
Volume/Sheet: 86
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Serial
Title: TBAS vol 88
Author/originator: various
Date: 1978
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
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source TBAS Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society is a journal produced by the society annually. It contains articles about archaeological field work that has taken place in Birmingham and Warwickshire in previous years. Copies of the journal are kept by the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Bronze Age About 2500 BC to 700 BC

The Bronze Age comes after the Neolithic period and before the Iron Age.

The day to day life of people in the Bronze Age probably changed little from how their ancestors had lived during the Neolithic period. They still lived in farmsteads, growing crops and rearing animals.

During the Bronze Age people discovered how to use bronze, an alloy of tin and copper (hence the name that has given to this era). They used it to make their tools and other objects, although they continued to use flint and a range of organic materials as well. A range of bronze axes, palstaves and spears has been found in Warwickshire.
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monument FINDSPOT * The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name. back
monument MUSEUM * A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed. back
monument CROFT * An enclosed piece of land adjoining a house. back
monument FARM * A tract of land, often including a farmhouse and ancillary buildings, used for the purpose of cultivation and the rearing of livestock, etc. Use more specific type where known. back

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