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I have always envied forum members who have actually been 'out there' and collected weaponry and gathered info in the field . As a field biologist I spent many years in the wilds of N Africa and the middle east as well as remote parts of the Indian Ocean . In those days sadly I didnt have the 'bug' , so though collecting opportunites were there I never did bring anything back .. exept this rather heavy duty spear head which I picked up on a small uninhabited island of the Chagos Archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is probably the least interesting thing I ever did encounter on my travels and I have no idea why I kept it .. but it lay in the garden shed for years until I found it whilst doing some tidying ! It's 28 cm overall with a blade width of 6 cm and the socket diameter is a massive 5 cm.