My Best Metal Detecting Finds
Armor-Piercing Trilobate Bronze Arrowhead, circa 600 - 300 B.C.
This was certainly one of my breathtaking discoveries! I had never imagined that I would cross the B.C. time barrier with my metal detecting finds before I dug up this amazing relic near a small Ukrainian village Antonov where Igor Sikorsky, one of the worlds greatest aviation pioneers, spent his childhood, in the Kiev region. The arrowhead was unearthed at the "fruitful" site of a medieval marketplace situated on the riverbank.
The trilobate armour-piercing arrowhead of the socketed type is made of peweter and bronze alloy, or "white bronze," 1-1/4" (3.5 cm) in length, and still sharp and shiny! It belongs to the Scythian or Scytho-Sarmatian culture. From the beginning of the 8th century B.C. Kimmer, Scyths (Skif) and Sack (Sakas) ancient groups made marches eastward to ancient lands of the Front Asia and Siberia.
During the Graeco-Scythian historic period, VII B.C. - I A.D., the entire territory of modern Ukraine was inhabited by the Skif tribes, and its southern part was a Greek colony. The arrowhead was found along with other interesting artifacts and coins dated from the millenniums B.C. to Medieval period. My full story can be read on the Crossing the "Before The Christ" Time Barrier! page.
This Out-Of-Space Relic is at least 2,300 Years Old!
