IRON SPEAR-HEAD

VII-IX century
Khazarian Khaganate

Conical socket with wide base, with one nail still preserved inside. Long narrow blade of rhomb section. Evidence of ancient secondary heating, most likely from cremation burial. Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film.
L. 13.3″ (33.7 cm).

See: Herzog R., Koller A. Die Alamannen. Stuttgart, 1997, p. 408; Yevglevsky A.V. The European Steppes in the Middle Ages. V.2.Khazarian Times. Donetsk, 2001, p.126, fig.50 #12; Daim F. History and archaeology of Avars / MAHET, vol. IX, 2002, p.341, tbl.1, #2.