East Riding Museums

Finds RF68 & RF50 (spear 1). A spearhead with a long narrow blade, slight shoulders and a flared socket. The diamond sectioned tip of the blade was broken off and was found next to spear tip RF13. Context 1003. Part of the South Cave Weapons Cache of 5 late Iron Age swords/scabbards and 33 iron spearheads, found by metal detectorists in September 2002. The site was subsequently excavated by Humber Field Archaeology and York Archaeological Trust. The cache was buried in a pit, dug into a pre-existing boundary ditch of a late Iron age/early Romano-British settlement. The finds date to about 70AD.