Iron Spear to identify

M ELEY · 24th November 2022, 12:25 PM

You've got a point there, David! (

) It is broad enough that it could be a spontoon. In reviewing the languets, I'd retract my possible Chinese polearm possibility and stick with either a pike head or spontoon ca. 18th. Do we have any info of where it was found? Dug relic?

Lansquenet59 · 27th November 2022, 01:49 PM

Thanks for the information. I don't have any more information. found at a militaria sale

BUCC_Guy · 27th November 2022, 04:26 PM

Certainly appears to me to be a Revolutionary War era pike head. It is not nearly as crude as many designs of the period.

I have one example, but yours is far nicer.

24th November 2022, 12:25 PM	#1
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,210	You've got a point there, David! () It is broad enough that it could be a spontoon. In reviewing the languets, I'd retract my possible Chinese polearm possibility and stick with either a pike head or spontoon ca. 18th. Do we have any info of where it was found? Dug relic?

27th November 2022, 01:49 PM	#2
Lansquenet59 Member Join Date: Jan 2020 Location: France Posts: 132	Thanks for the information. I don't have any more information. found at a militaria sale

27th November 2022, 04:26 PM	#3
BUCC_Guy Member Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Tennessee, USA Posts: 52	Certainly appears to me to be a Revolutionary War era pike head. It is not nearly as crude as many designs of the period. I have one example, but yours is far nicer.