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LOT 1481
Medieval Iron Swallow-Tailed Arrowhead
10TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
3 1/4 in. (17.6 grams, 84 mm).
With narrow curved edges and stepped tang. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
Literature
See Jessop, O., Medieval Arrowheads, Finds Research Group datasheet 22, Lincoln, 1997.
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