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This set includes a steel spear tip and brass butt cap for building your own Greek dory. Hoplites of the 2nd and 3rd century BC used the dory, or one-handed spear. The spear featured a shaft 2 to 3 meters long, a spear tip, and a butt cap (sauroter). The shaft cap let warriors plant the spear in the ground, provided counterbalance, and doubled as a spare spear if the shaft broke. Both the spear tip and the butt cap come with pre-drilled holes. Shafts and other accessories are available separately.
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Product details:
Material: brass (butt cap), steel (spear head)
Edge: semi-sharp
Length: 28 cm (spear), 27 cm (butt cap)
Length blade: 22 cm (spear)
Max width: 5.5 cm (spear)
Length point: 18 cm (butt cap)
Inner diameter base: 2.2 cm (spear and butt cap)
Weight: 260 g (spear head), 460 g (butt cap)
Based on a historic original
Shipping weight (grams): 1000
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