Iron spear head

Eastern Europe
VI century B.C.

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 11.5″ (29cm).
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.
– Melyukova A.I. Vooruzheniye skyfov. Moscow, 1964, tbl.12.