IRON SPEAR-HEAD

VII-IX century

Conical split socket with wide base. Narrow long blade of rhomb section. Corroded, intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film.
L. 9.3″ (23.5 cm).

See: Yevglevsky A.V. The European Steppes in the Middle Ages. V.2.Khazarian Times. Donetsk, 2001, p.83, fig.27 #10; Daim F. History and archaeology of Avars / MAHET, vol. IX, 2002, p.341, tbl.1, #2; Krim, Severo-Vostochnoye Prichernomor’ye i Zakavkaz’ye v epohu srednevekov’ya.Archeologia, Moscow, 2003, tbl.99 #3.