IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 158355 accession number: O.47-1879 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Large straight steel double edged leaf shaped blade with a low medial rib on the lower half, changing to a medial ridge in a point of diamond section on the upper half. At the base of the blade are two pronounced wings. The blade is attached through a complex of mouldings to a plain socket with a long wavy weld running down most of its length, and a cog-like ring at the base helps secure the socket to the wooden haft, a small fragment of which protrudes from the socket title: spearhead NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004) 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/158355 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Blade Length units: cm value: 30.9 dimension: Blade Width Max units: cm value: 4.8 dimension: Overall Length units: cm value: 55.6 dimension: Weight units: g value: 605 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 ---