A boar spear has a crossbar or a pair of lugs behind the head, and the reason is grim and practical. A wounded boar will run up the shaft to reach you. The bar stops it. It is the only piece of hunting kit that exists purely because the animal on the other end refuses to accept the situation.
Heads, bars and hafts
Boarcleft is the Damascus one, a winged boar spear on an ash haft with a swept crossbar and a brass knotwork ferrule, with a leather blade cover included. Tuskward is the 1095 version, a broad leaf blade with a curved steel crossbar on an ash haft with a riveted socket and a leather sheath. Boarhelm is the short one, a thirteen inch lugged head on a thirty inch olive and walnut haft with a steel butt spike, which is close to the length a hunter on foot would actually want. Two heads sit here without hafts: Wyrmtooth, a Damascus spearhead with winged lugs and a runed brass socket, and Silverleaf in 1095 with knotwork engraving and a runed socket.
They sit in Viking spears, alongside the rest of the field kit in hunting knives. For how the spear was used, read the Viking spear.
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
