The sides of this have been worked into a series of jagged downward pointing barbs, formed by striking oblique chisel blows down the two long edges, one on the upper face of the spear-head, the other on the opposite underside edge.īetween them, the flat upper and lower surfaces have been covered with incised decoration, consisting of a narrow band of cross hatching that runs along most of the length, then a lozenge formed by parallel lines at the base.ĭirectly below this, 2 pairs of upward pointing barbs has been chiselled to splay outwards from the body, 1 on each corner.Īlthough these splay outwards from the upper or lower face, the points almost meet one another on the sides.Ĭhiselling out these base barbs, and the side barbs above them has the effect of creating a lozenge-shaped plane on the flat upper and lower surfaces, that the lozenge-shaped motif incised on top serves to emphasise.Ī deep incised groove then runs around all 4 sides of the blade base.īelow this is a solid cylindrical rod that becomes a hollow socket for hafting the spear onto a shaft, with a vertical closed seam running up one side. Spear-head made from a single piece of iron, hammered to shape, and consisting of a round sectioned pointed tip, that gradually widens until it merges with a narrow elongated body with rectangular section.
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