The Medieval Spear-, Lance or Javelin Heads from the National Museum of Romanian History (Bucharest) and Their Assessment
The Medieval Spear-, Lance or Javelin Heads from the National Museum of Romanian History (Bucharest) and Their Assessment

Summary/Abstract: The referred article mostly classifies and subsequently embeds 18 medieval spear-, lance or javelin heads from the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest (Romania) in typology and chronology following the possible analogies. The discussed heads of throwing or thrusting pole arms are deposited in the medieval part of the depository concerning the Department of Archaeology of the aforementioned museum. Up to 61.1% of these heads is deficient of any information about their archaeological contexts. The rest most likely originated in the territory of present-day Romania. Except from two incomplete heads with fragments of their blades the examined assemblage can be divided into 7 categories or groups. The first category belongs to the thrusting heads/spikes whose sockets are wider than their blades. Heads of the remaining 6 groups have got blades wider than their sockets. The examined assemblage could be dated to the Middle Ages (the 6th – 16th centuries), then the usage of some of them might have also anteceded or exceeded the Middle Ages (to Prehistory, the Roman Period, Great Migration Period, and Modern Period), or it is not possible to date them (1 pc).

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