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Spears found in Britain

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:Notes- In remarkably good state of preservation. The blade is damascened, and the socket richly inlaid with silver, copper and ornaments of gold.
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.64 fig.31 (image)] [ROESDAHL 1981:p.63 cat.D6 (image)]
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:Notes- Grave Find. Type C-D, C9th. Affixed to a wooden shaft by a brass pin
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.15]
::The Archaeological Journal VIII p.424-425
::Blade- L.? x W.? x T.7mm
::Socket- broken (under 20mm diamter)
:Notes- This socketed spear-head has a well-preserved blade, but very corroded and broken socket. Dated by Petersen to the 8th and 9th centuries
:Bibliography- [MORRIS 1983]
::Blade- L.? x W.? x T.7mm
::Socket- broken (under 20mm diamter)
:Notes- Fuglesang has suggested that this spear resembles a type E spear.
:Bibliography- [FUGLESANG 1980:p.139] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 f.48]
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:Notes- Bronze socket of spearhead from Farnham, Pitt Rivers Museum C11th. This type of spearhead could be considered to be an eastern (Finish) type except for this find from York and another from the British Museum.
:Bibliography- [FUGLESANG 1980:fig.3] [LANG 1981] [KENDRICK 1949:pl.LXIX]
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:Notes- possible mouldings at base of blade
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:P.85] [WHEELER 1927:P.28 Fig.12.2]
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:Notes- Fine spear-head of the late Viking type [[R.523]], with a moulding at the base of the blade
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:P.64 Fig.33]
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:Notes- Spear-head of the type R. 523, of about 1000AD
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:P.64]
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:Notes- It has 6 pairs of close set rings each with a pair of rivet holes. I consider this to be a transitional type between F and I like those from Bruhaugen in Norway [PETERSEN 1919: Fig. 16] and Sodermanland in Sweden.
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.20 item c]
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:Notes- Small spearhead [[:File:R529.jpg|R529]]
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.59]
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:Notes- It has 7 pairs of rivet holes.
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.20 item b]
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:Notes- Long and slender late Viking - Type K?
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.15]
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:Notes- Type K, very rusty. A thin disk is attached to the socket. Inside the socket are fragments of fine linen fabric which had been bound twice around the point of the wooden shaft.
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.26]
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:Notes- found in the fens
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.67]
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:Notes- ''"traces of a serrated band of inlay along each side of the mid-rib"''[WHEELER 1927:p.23]
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.9 (image), p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]
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: Notes- ''"has slight traces of a zigzag strip of inlay down each side of the central rib."''[WHEELER 1927:p.20]
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.11 (image), p.20, p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]
::*[http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-Research/Collections-online/object.aspx?objectID=object-36933&rows=1&start=10&sort=summaryTitle%20asc London Museum]
::Blade-
::Socket- fragment of wooden shaft in socket.
:Notes- slight moulding at base of blade
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.13 (image), p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]
::*[http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-Research/Collections-online/object.aspx?objectID=object-36932&rows=1&start=9&sort=summaryTitle%20asc London Museum]
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:Notes- ''"The socket ls decorated with an elaborate interlacing pattern, inlaid in white metal; above this, the neck of the spear has eight facets, each bearing an inlaid key pattern.The lower end of the socket is damaged. but can be to some extent reconstructed from a strikingly similar spearhead found at Hyilestad, north of Bergen in Norway."''[WHEELER 1927:p.20] Wheeler identifies the decoration as Ringerike.
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.2 fig.1.14 (image), p.20-21 fig.5 (image), p.23] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]
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::Socket- D:20mm
:Notes- socket covered with alternating silver and copper chevrons.[BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84] This type of decoration is known mainly from Norway.[GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:p.73]
:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 fig.49 (image)] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL and KIDD 1980:p.115 fig.63] [GRAHAM-CAMPBELL 1980:p.73 fig.259]
::* [http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=66258&partid=1&output=Places%2F!!%2FOR%2F!!%2F39325%2F!%2F39325-3-1%2F!%2FExcavated%2FFindspot+Thames%2C+River%2F!%2F%2F!!%2F%2F!!!%2F&orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database%2Fadvanced_search.aspx&currentPage=1&numpages=10 British Museum]
::Blade- T:6mm
::Socket- D:18 mm
:Notes- Decoration between blade and socket consists of a barrel-shaped collar with two ribs above and below it. These had been forged by cutting into the spear when hot during manufacture. Pattern-welded blade.
:Bibliography- [MORRIS 1983]
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:Notes- Unprovenanced, but found in London
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1935:pl.XI 5] [MORRIS 1983]
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:Notes- Unpublished
:Bibliography- [MORRIS 1983]
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:Notes- Unpublished
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.28 fig.12.6]
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