Viking Age Iron Socketted Spearhead Group
10th-12th century A.D. Comprising two short Baltic Prussian spearheads with lentoid-section lanceolate blade, short neck and tapering circular socket with single hole for attachment pin; remains of wood inside one of the shafts. Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.CXXX, items 2,11.425 grams total, 26-28 cm (10 1/4 - 11 in.). Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector. Prussian horsemen, like the Lithuanian and Livonian, were ‘light - armed’, as the Prussian documents say, yet their equipment, of sword and spear, helmet and even shirt of mail, was sufficient to enable them to hold their ground against the Teutonic forces. [2, No Reserve]