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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): weapons, spearhead; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.47-1879]
Description: Large straight steel double edged leaf shaped blade with a low medial rib on the lower half, changing to a medial ridge in a point of diamond section on the upper half. At the base of the blade are two pronounced wings. The blade is attached through a complex of mouldings to a plain socket with a long wavy weld running down most of its length, and a cog-like ring at the base helps secure the socket to the wooden haft, a small fragment of which protrudes from the socket | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown spearhead weapons | Temporal: | name=17th Century; start=1600; end=1700 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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