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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): weapons, spear butt spike; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.55-1879]
Description: Small square section spike with recessed faces, attached by a moulded knop to a small socket with a braze line down one side, a reinforce at the end decorated with double incised lines and a series of file cut nicks at the end, and decorated with spirals in double incised lines bordered with double incised lines at either end. A fragment of the original wooden haft survives. The surface is polished bright, with some pitting from its earlier corrosion, and some staining | 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 spear butt spike 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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