An Early-Mediaeval winged spearhead from Fruška Gora

Abstract

Researchers have referred to the winged spearhead found on the southern slopes of Fruška Gora for more than 50 years. This paper fully describes and analyses this winged spearhead for the first time. The author briefly discusses the possible places of the spearhead’s origin, compares the spearhead with morphologically and technologically similar artefacts found all over Europe and places it within relevant typological-chronological classifications. Based on more or less close analogies, the Fruška Gora spearhead is dated to between the middle of the 9th century and the beginning of the 11th. The lack of archaeological context calls for caution when it comes to dating and interpreting this artefact and placing it in the course of known history

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