IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158349
accession number:	O.41-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Steel, with a waisted leaf-shaped blade with wings at the forte, almost flat but quite heavy, with a fuller at either side of a low medial ridge at either side and of quite rough construction. It is made in one piece with its socket to which it is joined by a moulded knop, the socket plain with a weld down one side and solid reinforcing ring also of steel at the bottom. The steel is pitted where is has been heavily corroded then polished bright. The section of socket below the ring has not been cleaned. A fragment of the presumably original wooden haft survives in the socket
title:	spearhead

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004).


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158349





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 20.2

dimension: Blade Width Max
units: cm
value: 5.2

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 41.2

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 540



CITATIONS
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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
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