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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): weapons, spearhead; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.49-1879]
Description: Small straight steel triangular blade of low diamond section, two incised lines suggesting the medial ridge. The blade is brazed to a separate socket, which is long and elegant with a brazed seam down one side, a dagged lower edge, and two reinforcing rings, the upper of D section, brazed on and bordered by three sets of double incised lines above and below, the lower a slightly cog-like ring which helps secure the socket to a fragment of the original bamboo haft | 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=18th century; start=1700; end=1800 | 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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