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[Giannis K. Hoplite]

There certainly are bronze and iron spear butts reinforced with lead weights. One of them is in the National Museum.
Unfortunately one can't take photos in Vergina. But there was a spear in there,that was completely covered in pure gold leaf! Of course the shaft issappeared but the cover remained and gives an accurate lenght of the spear. I don't remember exactly how tall it was. I think over my height,perhaps about 2 m. so it could be around 2,5m with the points. It was untappered,and it looked quite wide. Probably it wasn't very tightly fitted to the sgaft because i can't imagine it being functional! I guess they just covered it for the funeral. I wish i could have taken photos of all those interesting objects in Vergina. And books about the finds usually don't have the interesting stuff. Always the same old wreaths and larnaxes and cuirass...
Khairete
Giannis