IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 158366 accession number: O.56-1879 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Leaf shaped steel blade of almost flat section, with a sharp medial ridge bordered by broad fullers, much narrower fullers bordering the edges, leaving low rounded ribs in relief, and a slightly reinforced point. The blade is attached to a separate socket, has a wing-like section at the top, and has small dags at the base. Its seam is open, and it is secured to the blade by a broad, rounded reinforced decorated with double incised lines, and with a broad, low slightly cog-like reinforce at the base. The panel below the wings is decorated with incised foliage, there is a similar band of incised foliage between bands of ring and dot within incised lines below the first reinforce, and similar ornament at the bottom. The dags at the base are somewhat damaged. A fragment of the original wooden haft survives. The blade and upper moulding have been polished bright, the remainder of the socket left uncleaned title: spearhead LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Robert Taylor creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158366 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1660 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1660 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Blade Length units: cm value: 23.5 dimension: Blade Width Max units: cm value: 2.6 dimension: Overall Length units: cm value: 47.5 dimension: Socket Length units: cm value: 21.5 dimension: Weight units: g value: 284 CITATIONS -------- Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865 List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879 ---