Soliferrum

The soliferrum was a heavy hand-thrown javelin, designed to be thrown to a distance of up to 30 meters.

These spikes had one or several hooks, so the weapon would be hard to extract after it had penetrated an enemy's body.

The weight and the density of the weapon's iron shaft, its small diameter and its narrow tip gave the soliferrum excellent armor-piercing capacity at close range and enabled it to penetrate even heavy shields.

Archeological findings suggest that the soliferrum first appeared in the regions of Aquitania and Languedoc, north of the Pyrenees, during the 1st millennium BC.

From there, the weapon was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by migrating Celts and it was in Iberia that the soliferrum achieved its fame.