Eastern European iron spear head

VI century B.C.E.

Conical socket. Leaf-shaped blade with pronounced central nervure and folded socket. Part of the grain of the wooden shaft is preserved by the corrosion products inside. Intact. Length 11.75″ (30cm).

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.
– Melyukova A.I. Vooruzheniye skyfov. Moscow, 1964, tbl.12.