Arrow found on the Lendbreen ice patchEspen Finstad, secretsoftheice.com
Posted on 09/10/2024 6:48:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a Newsweek report, a 1,300-year-old arrow was recovered from Norway's Lendbreen ice patch by archaeologists from Secrets of the Ice. Glacial archaeologist Lars Holger Pilø said that the arrow was likely lost in the mountain pass while reindeer hunting. "The arrow in question is incredibly well-preserved even for ice finds," Pilø said. "It was found lying on the ice, which is normally a sign that the melt has reached layers previously untouched by melt," he explained. The iron arrowhead is of a type found in graves dated to about A.D. 700. "We have also found a few arrows with a similar arrowhead on a few occasions, which have come out with the same radiocarbon date," Pilø added.
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Arrow found on the Lendbreen ice patchEspen Finstad, secretsoftheice.com
You beat me to it! My first thought 🤣
Interesting shape of arrowhead. Looks as though it would be easy to shape with a hammer on an anvil. Very simple shape.
Have you ever done any metal forming with a hammer and anvil?
It takes a lot of skill to do something this delicate!
I can do stair rails, spikes, and horseshoes but an arrowhead, NO!
That takes years of experience to get something that small done right.
Huh....and the ice was at the level it currently is 1300 years ago you say?
Must’ve been all those SUV’s they were driving around which warmed the earth that much.
I didn’t watch the debate.
From what I’ve read on FR tonight, I may need to borrow that arrow and put myself out of my misery in 2 months.
I PRAY not.
(For the mods...I’m gesting...I wouldn’t self harm)
But I would drink a lot of JD over the next 4 years like the past 4!!!
And its apparent length and narrow width would probably help it really bore through the air and its eventual destination.
So that is where I lost it....
Would either of the arrowheads below take more or less skill?
Medieval arrowhead about 1200 AD.
Recently found arrow (with head) about 700 AD.
I believe skill levels of craftsmen remain about the same, but technology changes over time.
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