IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158365
accession number:	O.55-1879

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 square section spike with recessed faces, attached by a moulded knop to a small socket with a braze line down one side, a reinforce at the end decorated with double incised lines and a series of file cut nicks at the end, and decorated with spirals in double incised lines bordered with  double incised lines at either end. A fragment of the original wooden haft survives. The surface is polished bright, with some pitting from its earlier corrosion, and some staining
title:	spear butt spike

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/158365





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: 8.2

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 19.5

dimension: Socket Length
units: cm
value: 8

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 126



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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