INDO-GANGETIC MULTI-BARBED SPEARHEAD Copper Hoard Culture, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, mid-2nd millennium BC A substantial bronze spearhead or harpoon with thick midrib, triangular barbed blade, two pairs of lateral barbs and a pair of pierced spikes above a round-section tang. 693 grams, 33.5cm (13 1/4"). Condition Fine condition, blade notched, barbs partly absent. Extremely rare. Provenance Property of a West London gentleman; previously in an important weapons collection formed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Literature See Yule, P. The Bronze Age Metalwork of India, Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, München, 1985 for discussion. Footnotes Some Copper Hoard items have been assigned a ritual rather than practical function (Yule: 1985).
INDO-GANGETIC MULTI-BARBED SPEARHEAD Copper Hoard Culture, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, mid-2nd millennium BC A substantial bronze spearhead or harpoon with thick midrib, triangular barbed blade, two pairs of lateral barbs and a pair of pierced spikes above a round-section tang. 693 grams, 33.5cm (13 1/4"). Condition Fine condition, blade notched, barbs partly absent. Extremely rare. Provenance Property of a West London gentleman; previously in an important weapons collection formed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Literature See Yule, P. The Bronze Age Metalwork of India, Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, München, 1985 for discussion. Footnotes Some Copper Hoard items have been assigned a ritual rather than practical function (Yule: 1985).
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