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Spear with iron binding to retain head

10th September 2019, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Kmaddock

Thank you both for the info .
As the binding is in iron I taught this might indicate origin
has anyone any other examples of spears with iron binding?
Thanks
Ken

I have several tanged spears with iron strip spiral binding and have always thought of them as Shona or thereabouts , so south central Africa. .

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