IRON AGE CELTIC VOTIVE SPEAR 3rd-1st century BC An iron spearhead with leaf-shaped blade, square-section median rib extending to round-section socket with two fixing holes, faceted outer face and transverse lines to the midrib at the neck; flexed and bent. 320 grams, 37.5cm (14 3/4"). Fine condition, tip absent. Provenance Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 1980. Literature Cf. similar spearhead from Quilly, France, in Stead, I. et al. Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne, Oxford, 2006, fig.59(8). Footnotes The spearhead has been ritually 'killed' or put beyond use in order to make it a suitable item to accompany the dead warrior into the afterlife.
IRON AGE CELTIC VOTIVE SPEAR 3rd-1st century BC An iron spearhead with leaf-shaped blade, square-section median rib extending to round-section socket with two fixing holes, faceted outer face and transverse lines to the midrib at the neck; flexed and bent. 320 grams, 37.5cm (14 3/4"). Fine condition, tip absent. Provenance Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 1980. Literature Cf. similar spearhead from Quilly, France, in Stead, I. et al. Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne, Oxford, 2006, fig.59(8). Footnotes The spearhead has been ritually 'killed' or put beyond use in order to make it a suitable item to accompany the dead warrior into the afterlife.
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