Elaborate Bronze Javelin Head

Description

Bronze javelin head. Very precise workmanship. Blade lobes hammered flat after casting. Triangular mid-rib continues as initially square, then rounded tang-neck. Short tang neck ends in a pronounced stop-ridge and continues as a long, square, thinning tang. Extremely thin and sharp edges, hammered after casting, tang square at 30 deg to blade. Beautiful azurite and malachite mineral patina on cassiterite layer on the blade.