Pikehead
Collection object
1991.0249
Overall L; 49.4, blade to top of shoulder 37.8, width of blade 3.6, thickness of blade 0.7, width of tang at centre 1.5 thickness 0.9, diameter of perforation 0.7.
Pike head, iron. Parallel sided with faint central rounded rib; tanged with circular perforation at the square end of the tang; sloping shoulder from tang to blade. Appears to be made of three square rods welded together then hammered flat to form the cutting edges, and the outer rods flattened along the tang to leave two grooves on either side. Rusted, with a grey material adhering to centre of one side, ash?