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)
17020B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 lance (?) heads. Iron. 1 complete, 1 broken in 2 pieces, top of one missing all traces of wooden hafting. Tips only circular in section, rest rectangulare in section. Types approximately thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2]
17020C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 lance (?) heads. Iron. 1 complete, 1 broken in 2 pieces, top of one missing all traces of wooden hafting. Tips only circular in section, rest rectangulare in section. Types approximately thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2]
17042B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Spearheads. Copper. Barbed. Solid tang. [drawing 1:5]
17042C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Spearheads. Copper. Barbed. Solid tang. [drawing 1:5]
17359	31-43-558	(none)	(none)	Spear. Iron. Thick blade, very slightly convex. [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:5]
17445	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spear head. Iron. Barbed.
17608	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper spearhead. Point broken.
17659	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper spearhead. Broken but complete. Type not RC [drawing]
17670	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spearhead. Copper. Broken in half; broken tang. [drawing 1:2]
17679	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spear. Copper. Flat; tang broken. [drawing 1:1]
17682	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spear. Copper. Slightly ribbed; square tang. Type as U.17359. [drawing 1:1]
17687	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spear. Copper. Ribbed; broken tang. [drawing 1:1]
17795	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spear copper. With tang. [drawing]
17914A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 spears. Copper [Type] 5? [drawing]
17916	(none)	(none)	(none)	Dagger. Copper. Rectangular tanged. [Type] 1 new.
17922	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spear. Copper. Not RC.
19079	35-1-430	(none)	(none)	Bronze spearhead. Type _.
19207	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze spearhead. Type 5b.
17914B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 spears. Copper [Type] 5? [drawing]
9963B	(none)	(none)	B17333	[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]
9963C	(none)	(none)	B17335	[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]
10411D	(none)	(none)	B17344	[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.
12488C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Copper spearheads. Poker type. To each is attached a blade of thin metal which went round the wood of the shaft and with each goes a disk of copper, concave from the butt end of the shaft. Type I B.
13591B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 copper spearheads. Barbed. Type VII. B.
13798B	31-17-229	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 spearheads. Copper. Poker form. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]