chisel-headed

Updated: May 6, 2025

Those of bronze have, for the most part, the leaf shape of the bronze sword, but those of iron show many forms, the most remarkable being the chisel-headed, a type used in Persia. Spear-heads are not specially suggestive as to provenance, with the exception of a kind having a cross-arm like the halberd commonly used in China from the seventh century before Christ.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era