IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158353
accession number:	O.45-1879

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Small straight steel double edged leaf shaped blade of almost flat section, two rough incised lines suggesting the medial ridge. At the base of the blade are two slight wings. The blade is brazed to a separate socket, which has a brazed seam down one side, a dentated lower edge, and two small reinforcing rings, the upper decorated with diagonal incised lines, the lower a slightly cog-like ring which helps secure the socket to a fragment of the original bamboo haft.
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/158353





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 11

dimension: Blade Width Max
units: cm
value: 3.4

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 31

dimension: Socket Length
units: cm
value: 11.6

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 116



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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