Changes

Jump to: navigation, search

Spears found in Britain

1,854 bytes added, 19:52, 23 April 2013
/* Thålin Group 1 */
Group 1 consists of Petersen types A, B, C, D1 and E. They are all types with a lancoid blade and gradual transition from socket to blade.<br>
<br>
 
===Petersen Type D1===
{|
|- valign="top" id="Braham's Farm"
|width="100pt"| [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|130x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''England, Cambridgeshire, Braham's Farm'''
:Current Location- ?
:Dimensions-
::Total-
::Blade-
::Socket-
: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] [PEARSON 1981:cat.D6]
 
|- valign="top" id="Wandsworth"
|width="100pt"| [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|130x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Wandsworth'''
:Current Location-
:Dimensions-
::Total-
::Blade-
::Socket-
:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:fig.12-1]
 
|- valign="top" id="Ouse"
|width="100pt"| [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|130x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''England, Yorkshire, River Ouse''
:Current Location- Yorkshire Museum
:Dimensions-
::Total- L: 43.4 x W: 5.2cm
::Blade-
::Socket-
:Bibliography- [PENDLESONN 1980] [PEARSON 1981:cat.D16] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.93]
 
|- valign="top" id="Nottingham"
|width="100pt"| [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|130x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''England, Yorkshire, River Ouse''
:Current Location- British Museum
:Dimensions-
::Total- L: 62.2cm (24.5” long x 2.5” wide)
::Blade-
::Socket-
: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
|}
 
 
===Petersen Type E===
{|
: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]
 
|- valign="top" id="Thames"
|width="100pt"| [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|130x150px|left]]
|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Thames'''
:Current Location- ?
:Dimensions-
::Total- L.249mm x W.21mm
::Blade- L.? x W.? x T.7mm
::Socket- broken (under 20mm diamter)
:Fuglesang has suggested that this spear resembles a type E spear.
:Bibliography- [FUGLESANG 1980:p.139] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 f.48]
|}