Spear head

Iron spearhead, with long, lancet-shaped blade and silver coated ferrule with geometric niello decoration. In the ferrule there are remnants of the wooden shaft that had been attached with seven copper pins. Grave find, Birka, Bj 581, Adelsö Parish, Uppland.

Image rights: Ola Myrin, Historiska museet/SHM (CC BY 4.0