- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spear with a barbed metal blade with a twisted tang, socketed onto a wooden shaft. There are metal strips bound around the butt. [AB [OPS move] 16/7/2018]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1911
- Date collected
- By 1911
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1911
- Materials and processes
- Material Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Forged (Metal), Process Twisted, Process Bound, Process Carved, Process Socketed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 1050 mm, Depth: max 17 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1911.74.2
- Research and responses
Parker's full first name came from the 1901 census where he is listed as William H. Parker aged 37 born in Oxford and living in St Ebbes, a dealer in antiques [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 20/02/2007]
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