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Spear-head; iron; of slender lozenge-shaped section; the socket inlaid with copper and silver. Graham-Campbell 1980 Long slender iron spear-head of Petersen's Type K with silver and copper encrusted socket; the blade is of lozenge-shaped cross-section with an angular shoulder between socket and blade. There is a pair of holes for a single transverse rivet at the base of the socket. The entire length of the socket is encrusted with silver and copper wires, the criss-cross striations for which are particularly clear at the borders, both of which consist of a band of alternating silver and copper chevrons. Twisted pairs of silver and copper wires alternate with plain wires of both metals, to form transverse rows of herring-bone pattern between the borders.
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