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Offline okidoki

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roman spear or arrow head
« on: January 26, 2022, 08:01:31 am »
Hi All,

a brons head of a Javelin?

65mm x40mm
shaft 18mm
35.66 gr
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Re: roman spear or arrow head
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2022, 09:50:14 am »
Almost certainly not Roman.  The vast majority of Roman arrow and bolt heads are iron, though a few are bronze.  But more importantly none match this style and construction.  See the Arrow and Bolt Head thread stacked to the top of this sub-forum for hundreds of examples of Roman arrowheads.

The form looks medieval to me.  There were some arrowheads of roughly this shape in bronze from the bronze ages but they differed greatly in the details of constriction.


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Re: roman spear or arrow head
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2022, 09:54:35 am »
thx Shawn,

i look through your list, could not find it either, will look further 
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Re: roman spear or arrow head
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2022, 01:34:36 pm »
i did find a very similar head, iron Arrow Head 16th century
same dimensions
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Re: roman spear or arrow head
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2022, 08:05:15 pm »
You are sure it is bronze?
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Re: roman spear or arrow head
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2022, 12:39:13 pm »
yes,

looks and its non magnetic
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Re: roman spear or arrow head
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2022, 09:42:36 am »
While not a perfect match, it does remind me of a Petrie 120, which is a large, socketed bronze head from Bologna.




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Re: roman spear or arrow head
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2022, 11:04:07 am »
thank you looks very similar indeed
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