Skip to content
Pitt Rivers Museum
AboutHire the MuseumNewsletterUniversity of Oxford

1891.50.16

Currency spear-head

1891.50.16

Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Terms and Conditions

If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.

Collection type
Object
Description
Currency spear-head
Long description
Spear head currency. Formed from one piece of flat iron with a long shaft like length which tapers to a point and a small projection at one end and expands into a tri-headed section at the other. At this end the shaft divides at right angles into flat projections with rounded ends. Centrally to these and at the furthest extremity is a hollow tube formed by folding the sheet into a cone. Along one side of the spear are impressed bands which appear on the opposite side on the opposite face. [BS [OPS move] 9/8/2017]
Person
Field collector John Spencer Noldwritt
PRM source George R. Harding
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1891
Date collected
By 1891
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1891
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Hammered, Process Impressed
Dimensions
Width: max 356 mm, Depth: max 19 mm, Length: max 1747 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1891.50.16

Search terms: Currency, Weapon, Spear-head, Token

Further items to explore