Hello guys,
I've been trying to find some
good sources for spearheads but it seems to me that the info about them can be really vague at times. So i've some questions about this spearhead I purchased from a local metal detector's father who found it in the early 90's. The
head itself was found in the thuin region in Belgium. This
area was already used as a burial place in Gallo-Roman times, around the 2nd and 3rd century. The earliest name of the settlement, Thudinium Castellum, referring to a
Roman fortification. The guy I bought it from said it was a cavalry spear from the first century B.C. Dating back to the war of
Caesar against the Belgian
Celtic Nervii tribe. Given the action there was in this
area it's possible but can also be something else.
It's made of Iron and it's 255mmx25mm en weighs about 170 gram (not that much but it's heavily corroded). One thing that I noticed on the
head itself are 2 lines, my question I have about that is was it for looks,
had it a purpose or just a result of the production process?
Thanks for reading through