Iron, 380 grams, 514 mm. Circa 9th-11th century AD. A slender iron spearhead of leaf-shaped profile and lozengiform section. The blade is about 35 cm in length and 3.5 cm at the widest point. The short socket is of the standard Scandinavian closed-socket construction and only 3.3 cm external diameter at the mouth. Similar to the typical Petersen's Type G, but a little rounder at the base of the blade. Reference: cf. the spearhead from Sääksmäki in Leppäaho, H. Späteisenzeitliche Waffen aus Finnland, Helsinki, 1964 plate 44(a) and Hammond, B. British Artefacts vol.2 Middle-Saxon and Viking, Witham (in press). Very fine condition, stabilized and conserved. Provenance: found Cambridgeshire, England.