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*19.2.8 Miscellaneous.* In 1965 the National Museum, New Delhi, acquired eight Copper Hoard objects of which the following three are definitely weapons: (1) a double-barbed harpoon, length 35 cm, with straight barbs, having four bars on each side of the shaft, a medial-ridged blade and a shaft with two projecting knobs, one on each side, one of the knobs having a hole; (2) a double-barbed harpoon with curved barbs, length 37 cm, similar to (1) except the curved barbs; (3) an antennae sword, length from the hilt to the tip-end 47 cm, with one portion of the hilt broken and missing, with two holes, one on each side of the medial ridge.