Not much info forthcoming then?
Without wanting to monologue, but to aid anyone's future search here on myArmoury, I will add my own thoughts...
Perhaps there isn't much info on surviving sharp lance heads because:
1. It is hard to differentiate a surviving lance point from a spearhead?
(i.e. 'Spearheads' are over represented in the archeological record when some are, in fact, lance points)
or, I am missing the
point and
2. They were one and the same in the 14th-15th centuries?
In support of the latter, Strickland & Hardy in
Warbow suggest the French men-at-arms were ordered to cut down their lances for use on foot before
Poitiers, whilst Juliet Barker in
Agincourt reports the same happened before Agincourt.
The only example in David Nicolle's
Arms & Armour of the Crusading Era 1050-1350 is the 12th century Fornham spear, housed in the Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St. Edmunds and shown below; but this being a lance point is conjecture.
Will have to fall back on the art then...
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