Antique Spanish Colonial Dug Up 1750 Lance Spear Point

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This large hand-forged Spanish Colonial spear-lance point about 2 1/4 inches wide and 21 in. long, dating to the mid-1700s. Typically used by presidio soldiers in the Southwest, NM, and AZ. It would have been attached to a 7-9 ft. wooden shaft. Obviously the wood portion would break and was easily replaced. Steel weapons and equipment were difficult to obtain and expense in Mexico's early Spanish-Colonial period. A lance point like this was used for killing game and self-defense. In fair condition.. heavly pitted but in solid shape for a piece of this age and rigorous use and coming out of the ground. A spear point like this would have possible ended up as an Indian trade item once it was obsolete to the Spanish. This is a dug up relic uncovered in the Palo Duro Canyon area just south of Amerillo, Texas by Dee Breckheiser. Breckheiser of Albuquerque, NM died about a year ago from Lou Gehrig's disease. For 40 years Dee was an avid metal detecting enthusiast, historian and archeologist. He dug up items all along the Old Santa Fe Trail and every old Army fort in the southwest. The Palo Duro Canyon was in the big southern buffalo range. This lance was not a typical buffalo hunting point but may have been used by a Spaniard for buffalo hunting or more likly traded to an Indian who lost it, a buffalo could have run off with it, hard to read more

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