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Spears found in Britain

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Fuglesang has studied the K & M types of spearhead that are decorated in Ringerike designs. Due to difficulty in determining the exact typology of many of these spearheads she has introduced a new K/M type that falls between those of Petersens K and M [FUGLESANG 1980].

===Petersen Type F===

Type F spearheads generally have a length of 30-60cm with most being between 50-60cm. Petersen classes this a very numerous type in Norway [PETERSEN 1919].

{|

|- valign="top" id="Hasket-in-Forest"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Cumberland, Hasket-in-Forest, near Carlisle'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total- 11” long

::Blade-

::Socket-

:It has 6 pairs of close set rings each with a pair of rivet holes. I consider this to be a transitional type between F and I like those from Bruhaugen in Norway [PETERSEN 1919: Fig. 16] and Sodermanland in Sweden.

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.20 item c]

|- valign="top" id="Oxford"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Oxfordshire, River Thames'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Small spearhead R529

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.59]

|}

===Petersen Type I===

The socket commonly has 11 pairs of holes originally with bronze rivets. Some have up to 15 pairs of holes. Petersen classes these as not numerous in Norway [PETERSEN 1919].

{|

|- valign="top" id="Hasket-in-Forest2"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Cumberland, Hasket-in-Forest, near Carlisle'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total- 17 5/8” long with its tip missing.

::Blade-

::Socket-

:It has 7 pairs of rivet holes.

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.20 item b]

|}

===Petersen Type K===

{|

|- valign="top" id="Old London Bridge1"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Old London Bridge'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]

|- valign="top" id="Old London Bridge2"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Old London Bridge'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]

|- valign="top" id="Old London Bridge3"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Old London Bridge'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]

|- valign="top" id="Old London Bridge4"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Old London Bridge'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]

|- valign="top" id="Old London Bridge5"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Old London Bridge'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]

|- valign="top" id="Old London Bridge6"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Old London Bridge'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.77]

|- valign="top" id="Putney"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Putney'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.28 Fig.12.4] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.85]

|- valign="top" id="Tate Gallery"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, nr. Tate Gallery'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.28 Fig.12.5] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.85]

|- valign="top" id="Thames"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Thames River'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:socket covered with alternating silver and copper chevrons

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.28 Fig.12.5] [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 fig.49]

|- valign="top" id="London1"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total- 24"

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 fig.50]

|- valign="top" id="London2"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total- 18"

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 fig.51]

|- valign="top" id="London3"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total- 12"

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.84 fig.52]

|- valign="top" id="Camphill"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Yorkshire, Camphill near Bedale'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Long and slender late Viking - Type K?

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.15]

|- valign="top" id="Ely"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Cambridgeshire, Ely'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:found in the fens

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.67]

|- valign="top" id="Balladoyne"

|width="600pt"| '''Isle of Man, Balladoyne'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total- L:20-25”

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Type K, very rusty. A thin disk is attached to the socket. Inside the socket are fragments of fine linen fabric which had been bound twice around the point of the wooden shaft.

:Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:p.26]

|}

===Petersen Type M===

{|

|- valign="top" id="Nazing"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Essex, Nazing'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total- L:246mm x W:35mm

::Blade- T:6mm

::Socket- D:18 mm

:Decoration between blade and socket consists of a barrel-shaped collar with two ribs above and below it. These had been forged by cutting into the spear when hot during manufacture. Pattern-welded blade.

:Bibliography- [MORRIS 1983]

|- valign="top" id="Thames Street"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Thames Street'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1935:pl.XI 4] [MORRIS 1983]

|- valign="top" id="London"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Unprovenanced, but found in London

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1935:pl.XI 5] [MORRIS 1983]

|- valign="top" id="Kidlington"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Kidlington, River Cherwell'''

:Current Location- Ashmolean Museum: 1949/928

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Bibliography- [MORRIS 1983]

|- valign="top" id="Lugg Mills"

|width="600pt"| '''England, Hertfordshire, Lugg Mills'''

:Current Location- Ashmolean Museum: 1949/928

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Unpublished

:Bibliography- [MORRIS 1983]

|- valign="top" id="Datchet"

|width="600pt"| '''England, London, Thames at Datchet'''

:Current Location-

:Dimensions-

::Total-

::Blade-

::Socket-

:Unpublished

:Bibliography- [WHEELER 1927:p.28 fig.12.6]

|}

==Unclassified Spearheads ==

The following spearheads are referenced but have both no associated image and no type mentioned.

*Magdalen Bridge, Oxford, England (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.12)

*West Ham, near Basingstoke, Hants, England. Possibly Saxon (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.15)

*Claughton Hall, near Gortstaug, Lancashire, England (Lost) (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.18)

*Ballaugh, Isle of Man (Lost) (SHETELIG, Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland Part 4, VIKING ANTIQUITIES IN ENGLAND 1940, P.22)

*Boiden, near the lower Bridge of Froon, Scotland (Lost) The spear-head is 11 in. long and 2 in. broad.

==References==

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