Eastern European iron spear head

VI century B.C.

Narrow conical and folded socket. Leaf-shaped blade with pronounced central nervure. Small fragment at the base missing, otherwise intact. Length 13.5″ (34.5 cm).

For archaeological analogies in academical publication see:
– S. Alexandrov, Gold and Bronze. Metals, Technologies and Interregional Contacts in the Eastern Balkans during the Bronze Age. National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Sofia 2018,  p.555 cat # 599
– O.Mogylov, New studies of the mounds of the Scythian time in the west of the East European Forest-Steppe, 2012 , fig. 2