East Riding Museums

Find RF87 (spear 20). A long shanked spearhead, with a narrow leaf shaped blade. One rounded shoulder (the other is missing, as is the blade tip). Flared socket. 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.