Spears and Lances

This category includes shafted thrusting devices and the associated equipment.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
9911C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Lance-heads Poker type with square section and short tang (one broken) Type__
9963A	(none)	1928,1010.331	(none)	[A-D] Copper spear butts (?) 4 The lower part is solid and seems to be cast: the upper part was made hollow and open down one side: the wooden shaft was inserted, the open sides brought together over it, so as to overlap and then secured by copper nails driven through the wood. [drawing]
10023	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spear The head is of copper, leaf-shaped with parallel ribbing The upper part of the haft is plated with gold in imitation of jointed bamboo The lower part of the haft was plain wood
10045A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Lance-heads Copper Six of a type Hollow socketted with small barbs and [drawing] very long slender tip, round in section. Type VII B
10045B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Lance-heads Copper Six of a type Hollow socketted with small barbs and [drawing] very long slender tip, round in section. Type VII B
10045C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Lance-heads Copper Six of a type Hollow socketted with small barbs and [drawing] very long slender tip, round in section. Type VII B
10045D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Lance-heads Copper Six of a type Hollow socketted with small barbs and [drawing] very long slender tip, round in section. Type VII B
10045E	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Lance-heads Copper Six of a type Hollow socketted with small barbs and [drawing] very long slender tip, round in section. Type VII B
10045F	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-F] Lance-heads Copper Six of a type Hollow socketted with small barbs and [drawing] very long slender tip, round in section. Type VII B
10046A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Copper Lance-heads (2) resembling U.10045, but longer: hollow socketted with small barbs (1 - broken) Type VII.
10046B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Copper Lance-heads (2) resembling U.10045, but longer: hollow socketted with small barbs (1 - broken) Type VII.
10047	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Lance-head [drawing] Type I
10048	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Spearhead Very much like U.10047, but with a narrower and thicker blade Type I
10049A	(none)	(none)	B17520.1	Copper spear-heads [struck out: "eleven" and "twelve"] thirteen all of the solid poker type, square in section write chisel-ended clamp No 11 had round it the copper collar from the end of the shaft (broken)
10181	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Spear Broken in 3 pieces Type 2
10361	(none)	(none)	B17507	Copper Spear Long flat blade Type II
10411A	(none)	(none)	B16690	[A-D] 4 [struck out: "arrows"] Throwing spears Found apparently inside a quiver of which the base was formed by a very large copper nail with silver-plated head; diam 0045. The spears had been broken across the middle, and of 2 of them the butt end was missing, of 2 it was present. The heads are of gold 017 long: the shafts were bound with gold and silver bands 003, wide with 003, of wood showing between: the butts are of gold with copper fork to take the bow-string. See Field Notes.
10411B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 [struck out: "arrows"] Throwing spears Found apparently inside a quiver of which the base was formed by a very large copper nail with silver-plated head; diam 0045. The spears had been broken across the middle, and of 2 of them the butt end was missing, of 2 it was present. The heads are of gold 017 long: the shafts were bound with gold and silver bands 003, wide with 003, of wood showing between: the butts are of gold with copper fork to take the bow-string. See Field Notes.
10411C	(none)	1928,1010.93	(none)	[A-D] 4 [struck out: "arrows"] Throwing spears Found apparently inside a quiver of which the base was formed by a very large copper nail with silver-plated head; diam 0045. The spears had been broken across the middle, and of 2 of them the butt end was missing, of 2 it was present. The heads are of gold 017 long: the shafts were bound with gold and silver bands 003, wide with 003, of wood showing between: the butts are of gold with copper fork to take the bow-string. See Field Notes.
10466A	(none)	(none)	B17334	Copper spear butts (A,B) [drawing] Type__
10472A	(none)	(none)	B16689	Silver Spears 4 The heads silver: the shafts bound with silver which was too rotten to keep: two of them have notched silver butts for the throwing thong. Two are corroded together. Type 2 (new)
10472B	(none)	(none)	B17078	Silver Spears 4 The heads silver: the shafts bound with silver which was too rotten to keep: two of them have notched silver butts for the throwing thong. Two are corroded together. Type 2 (new)
10472C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Spears 4 The heads silver: the shafts bound with silver which was too rotten to keep: two of them have notched silver butts for the throwing thong. Two are corroded together. Type 2 (new)
10476A	(none)	1928,1010.326	(none)	[A-B] Copper Tools 2 Corroded together Oval thin sheet: use uncertain [drawing] Type 2 (new)
10531	(none)	(none)	B17004	Copper Spear Long flat blade. Long haft square in section