The last person who touched this three-bladed arrowhead was a Viking [View all]

“We have never found an arrowhead like this before”, the glacial archaeologists from Secrets of the Ice in Norway recently reported on their Facebook-page.

Ida Irene Bergstrøm
JOURNALIST
Friday 26. August 2022 - 14:20

“Oh, look at this little beauty”, the team of archaeologists enthusiastically exclaim in their Facebook-update, which includes a video of the three-bladed arrowhead. “The last person who touched it was a Viking,” the post reads.

The team of glacial archaeologists from Innlandet county's Secrets of the Ice and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo are currently doing their annual field work up in the Norwegian mountains, where melting ice keeps on revealing lost items from our past.

The unique arrowhead is from a new site in the Jotunheimen Mountains, where the team were just doing an initial exploratory survey. Finds like this Viking Age arrowhead means they will most certainly be returning.

Was it made for hunting or war?
The arrowhead is made of iron. Its shape indicates that it is typical for the Viking Age, Lars Pilø writes in an email to sciencenorway.no.

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