IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 158363 accession number: O.53-1879 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Small waisted triangular steel blade of diamond section, with a pronounced medial ridge swelling to a reinforced point. At the base of the blade are small shoulders, and it is made in one with a plain socket of circular section with a weld line running down one side. The surface is polished bright, with some pitting from its earlier corrosion, and some staining 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/158363 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: 14.5 dimension: Blade Width Max units: cm value: 2.9 dimension: Overall Length units: cm value: 25.4 dimension: Weight units: g value: 19.2 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 ---