Discovery of the Ancient Arrowhead - Crossing the B.C. Time Barrier (Story 2)
I slowly began scanning the ground in circular pattern around the last dug hole, and received an interesting signal. It was not "round." It had some unusual sound pattern, and the cursor on the display stayed in one place, in the copper/bronze area.
As I started digging and scanning the dirt, I realized that it was a deep target, at least 11 inches deep. Suddenly an object fell out of the dirt-pile on the shovel blade. I noticed it only because it was shiny enough to reflect the sunlight into my eyes! It fell back into the hole.
I looked at it and thought it was a modern arrowhead that a bow hunter had lost recently. Right away, I realized how ridiculous my thought was.
I called Dmitry and he came over. When he saw my find, he offered me to exchange my find for his silver Roman Denarius! Now I knew I recovered something very ancient and valuable.
Later I made a trip to the Kievan museum and found out that my find was a tri-lobbed arrowhead of the armour-piercing type, made of a Bronze/Pewter alloy, and dated back to the...600 BC (Before The Christ)!!! I was glad that I refused to swap my 2600 years old Relic Find of the Year!
The arrowhead represents the Greek-Skif historic period, 700 BC - AD 100, when the entire territory of modern Ukraine was inhabited by the Skif tribes, and its southern part was a Greek colony. An arrow with this type of arrowhead could easily pierce the enemy's protective armour or his shield.
A Skif Warrior
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