SARACEN ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822259
84-853

12-13th century. Crusades period, recovered from a castle siege site. Iron, 2” overall, finely forged and excellent with the tip bent from impact on the battlement.

SARACEN ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822256
84-852

12-13th century. Crusades period, recovered from a castle siege site. Iron, 2” overall, finely forged and excellent with the tip bent from impact on the battlement.

SARACEN ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822254
84-851

12-13th century. Crusades period, recovered from a castle siege site. Iron, 2” overall, finely forged and excellent with the tip bent from impact on the battlement.

SARACEN ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822252
84-850

12-13th century. Crusades period, recovered from a castle siege site. Iron, Just under 2” overall, finely forged and excellent with the tip bent from impact on the battlement.

SARACEN ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822249
84-849

12-13th century. Crusades period, recovered from a castle siege site. Iron, 2” overall, finely forged and excellent with the tip bent from impact on the battlement.

CENTRAL ASIA NOMAD ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822246
84-848

Period of the migrations into central Asia, 11-12th century, before the Mongol conquest. Well forged, elegant profile including slightly cusped base. Tang bent otherwise excellent.

CENTRAL ASIA NOMAD ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822240
84-847

Period of the migrations into central Asia, 11-12th century, before the Mongol conquest. Well forged, with slender angular leaf shaped blade on expanded base over slender tang. Fine profile and good preservation. The Nomads were buried with their weapons and these come from those burials. See Nicolle fig.758c..

EXTREMELY RARE KIRGHIZ ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822232
84-846

6-12th century. 4 1/2” length. Deep triangular section with large scalloped angular edge veins each with a pierced hole to the base. One vein broken through the hole. Just a handful of these known and Nicolle discusses them, p.288 (fig.343) suggesting that they were ceremonial, supported by the finely finished tang here.

HUGE KIRGHIZ ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822219
84-845

9-12th century, the period of Kirghiz power in central Asia which ended with the Mongol invasion. 3 3/4” o.a Huge flat diamond shaped flesh cutting head. See Nicolle fig. 744 e-f. The Kirghiz are racially related to eastern European peoples including Poles, Hungarian and Ukrainian and migrated to central Asia in the first millennium establishing an isolated civilization which reached to Siberia. The tip damaged.

HUGE KIRGHIZ ARROWHEAD

Popular Collectibles: Militaria: Edged Weapons Pre 1492: item #822210
84-844

9-12th century, the period of Kirghiz power in central Asia which ended with the Mongol invasion. 3 3/4” o.a Huge flat diamond shaped flesh cutting head. See Nicolle fig. 744 e-f. The Kirghiz are racially related to eastern European peoples including Poles, Hungarian and Ukrainian and migrated to central Asia in the first millennium establishing an isolated civilization which reached to Siberia. Interesting banded base. Excellent.