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Old 8th February 2017, 06:50 AM   #2
machinist
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I do not have anything specific to the battle, I do have a picture that is supposed to be from the museum of the battlefields state park but I believe they are two Mexican swords of the second half of the eighteen hundreds, one sword I cannot say and a lance head that looks more like a buffaloes hunters lance all with no provenance given.
I have two Mexican spearheads one of which is for a lance, I think was collected in northern Mexico (modern boundaries) and the other one is a much larger, in my opinion too heavy for a horsemans lance that was supposed to be dug from the Carpenteria area, They are ten and eighteen inches long.
The smaller one has been hammered on the socket as if to drive it into the ground, I have seen this with other Mexican spearheads and have been told they were used to stake horses or tents.
I have seen one other very similar to my large one that was from the San Juan Capistrano area that was twenty inches.
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