[Bonetools] Bone Spearheads and Combat

[trzaska at lineone.net]

Dear WBRG,

I have prepared a publication text on Iron Age bone pointed implements from a site at Trumpington, 
Cambridgeshire. The completed volume has been sent to an external referee, and he suggests that 
these objects were used as spearheads, which I would agree with. However, the site has some 
evidence of weapon injuries to individuals, as well as some worked human bone, mainly femurs; and 
he suggests that these implements were used as spearheads in combat. 

I wonder what you think about this idea? I enclose my (much more cautious) text here with record 
photographs of the objects, plus another file with some illustrations of the Trumpington material 
as well as the single iron spearhead from the site and another object (bottom left), a whale bone 
spear from Linton, Cambridgeshire. That object was published alongside a group of early Iron Age 
bone objects from the site in 1953, but is it really of early Iron Age date ?

I wonder what you think about this martial interpretation ?

Ian Riddler
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