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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 298

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ion, is in the NationalMuseum. It has a single edge, upon the con-cave side of the blade, and measures rather lessthan two feet. Other weapons in common useamonof the Celtiberians were an iron dart—thesannion or soliferrea; the javelin ; the lance—aweapon so immemorially old in Spain that… … CRES1- OF JOUSTING HELME:T(Royal Arnioioy, Madrid) ARMS the cruel weapon used until about a quarter ofa century ago for houghing coward cattle in thebull-ring. Thus, when the Romans entered Spain thenatives of this country were experienced in theuse of arms, and made their own from suchmaterials as…

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