AUCTION Rare 17th / 18th Century Polearm

Recently acquired from Torrisdale Castle, Kintyre, an uncommon variant polearm dating to the 17th or 18th Centuries. The head is relatively crudely forged, and comprises a central slender leaf-shaped spear head, with conforming lateral blades projecting from its base. It is affixed to its original pine shaft by means of a socket and single langet. It is impossible to be precise with regard to the origin of this weapon. It may date to the period of the Jacobite uprisings, though it is as likely to relate to the Fencibles of the Napoleonic period. One other possibility is that it is one of the family of polearms carried by town wardens of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Certainly a scarce, striking and most interesting polearm. iEmail to arrive at delivery options/I

Code: 18675