This category includes the pointed projectiles attached at the end of shafts. These are separated from Arrowheads by their size, being much larger than the arrowheads. 

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
9123K (none) (none) B17395.4 [A-K] Spearheads. Copper. A set of 11 found together.
9123G (none) (none) B17395.3 [A-K] Spearheads. Copper. A set of 11 found together.
9123F (none) (none) B17395.2 [A-K] Spearheads. Copper. A set of 11 found together.
9123E (none) (none) B17395.1 [A-K] Spearheads. Copper. A set of 11 found together.
10797 (none) (none) B17366 Copper Fish spear. Shaped like a double pronged hoe. For sketch see Field Note.
10841A (none) (none) B17360 [A-J] Copper Spearheads. Ten in all. All alike. (The point of one is missing). Type VIA [Crossed out] 2 (New) [Drawing]
10827C (none) (none) B17349 Tomb Group A. Copper helmet. B. Copper spearhead, poker type, tip missing. It is not quite of the normal type in that the section is diamond instead of square the tang, type I. variant. C. Copper spearhead, no ribs or tang, tip missing. Type V. [drawing]
10825C (none) (none) B17348 Tomb Group. A. Copper helmet on [D] head. B. Copper spearhead. Type IV. [drawing] C. Copper spearhead, poker type Type I.
9518 (none) (none) B17347 Copper Spear Poker type, square-section with short square-section tang Type VI.
10411D (none) (none) B17344 [A-D] 4 [struck out: "arrows"] Throwing spears Found apparently inside a quiver of which the base was formed by a very large copper nail with silver-plated head; diam 0045. The spears had been broken across the middle, and of 2 of them the butt end was missing, of 2 it was present. The heads are of gold 017 long: the shafts were bound with gold and silver bands 003, wide with 003, of wood showing between: the butts are of gold with copper fork to take the bow-string. See Field Notes.
9963C (none) (none) B17335 [A-D] Copper spear butts (?) (4) The lower part is solid and seems to be cast: the upper part was made hollow and open down one side: the wooden shaft was inserted, the open sides brought together over it, so as to overlap and then secured by copper nails driven through the wood. [drawing]
10466A (none) (none) B17334 Copper spear butts (A,B) [drawing] Type__
10466B (none) (none) B17334 Copper spear butts [drawing] Type__
9963B (none) (none) B17333 [A-D] Copper spear butts (?) (4) The lower part is solid and seems to be cast: the upper part was made hollow and open down one side: the wooden shaft was inserted, the open sides brought together over it, so as to overlap and then secured by copper nails driven through the wood. [drawing]
10472D (none) (none) B17079 Silver Spears 4 The heads silver: the shafts bound with silver which was too rotten to keep: two of them have notched silver butts for the throwing thong. Two are corroded together. Type 2 (new)
10472B (none) (none) B17078 Silver Spears 4 The heads silver: the shafts bound with silver which was too rotten to keep: two of them have notched silver butts for the throwing thong. Two are corroded together. Type 2 (new)
10531 (none) (none) B17004 Copper Spear Long flat blade. Long haft square in section
(none) (none) (none) B16968 (none)
8234 (none) (none) B16962 Copper spearhead or butt? Long rod rectangular in section, the tang slightly smaller in diameter, the shaft tapering to a stout point. [type] VI.
10411A (none) (none) B16690 [A-D] 4 [struck out: "arrows"] Throwing spears Found apparently inside a quiver of which the base was formed by a very large copper nail with silver-plated head; diam 0045. The spears had been broken across the middle, and of 2 of them the butt end was missing, of 2 it was present. The heads are of gold 017 long: the shafts were bound with gold and silver bands 003, wide with 003, of wood showing between: the butts are of gold with copper fork to take the bow-string. See Field Notes.
10472A (none) (none) B16689 Silver Spears 4 The heads silver: the shafts bound with silver which was too rotten to keep: two of them have notched silver butts for the throwing thong. Two are corroded together. Type 2 (new)
1361 (none) 1924,0920.233 (none) Bronze implemenet. Like a nail with 2 barbs or flanges. [drawing 1:1]
(none) (none) 1928,1010.402 (none) (none)
7526F (none) 1928,1009.268 (none) [A-F] 6 arrowheads. Iron. Parts of wooden shaft remain. Late Kassite or Assyrian? Found with 2 silver earrings and pot type CXLIX.
7925 (none) (none) (none) Spear butt end? Copper. Complete but broken at top and mended. Rectangluar in section tapering to a point at one end. The other end tapers to a flat rounded edge convenient for fixint into a wooden shaft. [drawing 1:10] [type] 1(new)

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Spear Ends

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