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spear.head (2) arrow.head
Glass-fronted wooden box containing 2 iron spear-heads and one iron arrow-head, all tanged. Museum labels on front and back of box. Several labels - front of box, top: 244, on back of box, hand-written label in ink: Two spear and One Arrow Head found…
spear.thrower (clewang)
Wooden spear-thrower, from Sumatra? Slip catalogue describes this as a 'chewang', Thomson describes it as a 'clewang'. One of three collected by Thomson and noted in the Accessions Book 1941-1963 as having been donated in 1952, but only one located…
Spearhead. A bronze socketed spearhead about five inches long. The point is quite small, most of the length being taken up by the socket. There is a small loop on either side of the socket.
Bronze spearhead, socketed with side loops, leaf-shaped blade with tapering midrib.
Inscription: old paper label: C.24 ABDUA number and NEW written inside socket
Inscription: old paper label: C.24 ABDUA number and NEW written inside socket
Spearhead. A bronze socketed spearhead about six inches long. The point is large and wide, taking up half the length. There is a small loop on either side of the socket.
Bronze spearhead, socketed and with side loops, kite-like blade, tapering mid-rib and V-shaped ridge. Has a notch across the socket, possibly to aid hafting.
Spearhead. A large bronze socketed spearhead over a foot long. The blade is shaped like a long pointed leaf and is broken near the tip, revealing the socket which runs almost the length of the blade. The blade is also broken near the socket at the bottom, showing a length of wood inside.
Bronze spearhead, found in Loch Kinnord, Logie Coldstone, Aberdeenshire in 1874 by John Simpson, Meikle Kinnord. In three pieces. A portion of the oak handle remains in the socket.
Spearhead. A large iron spearhead almost a foot and a half long. The blade is an elongated diamond shape and it has a tapered socket taking up about a third of the length.
One of three iron spear heads, listed together in Reid (1912).
specimen (river water)
Test tube with cork lid, wrapped in a paper label. Originally contained a specimen of water from the River Jordan. Inscription: Hand-written label in ink: Water from the Jordan above Tiberius
specimen (shell)
Two shells collected from a cataract, wrapped in a paper label. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: Shells from the great cauldron formed by the largest of the Rewah cataracts.
specimen (shrub)
Plant specimen wrapped in paper label, taken from Gozo. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: A peculiar shrub grown in the rock at Gozo where you are spun across in a box.