Museum

Spearhead

Description

Spearhead, c. 1579-1599. A late sixteenth-century pewter filigree decoration for staff top, dated 1589, with the standing figure of a soldier bearing a pike. Mounted in glazed frame. Excavated from the Thames foreshore and formerly part of the Hornsby Collection.

Object number

STRST : SBT 1999-26
Date

c.1589
Material

pewter metal glass

Measurements
Length

18 cm 7 in. (excluding frame)
Width

19.5 cm 7.8 in. (frame)
9 cm 3.5 in. (excluding frame)
Height

28.5 cm 11.4 in. (frame)

Marks & inscriptions

date : cast : below figure of soldier : : ANO 1589,

Credit line

CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Part of Exhibition

Shakespeare Connected - Marking Time in Shakespeare’s England

A Shakespeare Connected exhibition in collaboration with Sophie Cope, University of Birmingham.

From the Library

Shakespeare and the stuff of life : treasures from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust / edited by Delia Garratt, Tara Hamling.

London : Arden Shakespeare, [2016].

2016

Museum

Spearhead

Description

Object number

Date

Material

Measurements

Length

Width

Height

Marks & inscriptions

Credit line

Part of Exhibition

From the Library