What is this?

[Regtop]

Dear reader,

I'm new at this forum and I hope this is the right place to open this topic (if it's not, please let me know, perhaps with a suggestion on where I can ask my question).

For a month ago I purchased (not a detector find) the following item: http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh122/Navonamin/

(I use the link because of the 'volume' of the photo's).

Additional information:

Finding location: Cieurac (Cieurac near Souillac, (Dordogne) France)
Lenght: 45 cm

Does anyone have the slightest idea what it might be?

Greetings,

Cedric Regtop
Groningen/The Netherlands

 

[Carolina Phil]

n/t

 

[Carolina Phil]

This link may be helpful for you. Be sure to scroll to the bottom and click on the link titled "List of daggers".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger

Good luck.

 

[Welsh Neil]

Looks more like its a Medieval Pike to my eye. A wooden stave would fit into the round bit on an 8 foot pole. I don't believe its a Roman dagger as it doesn't look like any I have seen before. Nice item - whatever it is.

 

[rlwlofts]

IT COULD BE THE CENTER PRONG OF A 3 PRONG FORK OR IT COULD BE THE END OF A HAND CARRIED FLAG POLE.

 

[Anonymous]

I think it is some sort of pike meant to penetrate armour. Would have been attached to a long wooden shaft.

 

[UK Brian]

Centre of a three pronged fork is the most likely.

No dagger is that crude or has a hole for attachment to a pole.
Its not up the the job of a pike and lacks any sign of the reinforcement strips (langets) that were often fitted to allow the head to absorb a heavy impact.
The Spontoon was a pike that lacked reinforcement as it was a almost ceremonial item used for signaling. The problem with this suggestion is that the cross-arms, in fact the whole head was a quality item with very lightweight arms.

 

[tabdog]

hay Fellas,

Looks like the top of a fence I would hate to try and climb on.

Just a thought,

Tabdog

 

[Canewrap]

It actually looks like the top of a Medieval pole weapon. Is that a hollow socket on the bottom, like would be mounted on the end of a long shaft?