Small arrowhead

The flint arrowhead comes from a multicultural archaeological site located in Łęczna. It was there, on a dune spreading on the right bank of the Wieprz River, where numerous artefacts were discovered, including flint tools.

The described monument is a small triangular spearhead with almost straight sides, whose dimensions do not exceed 2 cm (height 1.6 cm and width 1.3 cm). Originally it served as the sharp end of a bow arrow. It is made of Świeciechów flint, whose name comes from the village of Świeciechów Poduchowny, in the Kraśnik district; its deposits are located in this area. This flint is easy to recognize, most often it is grey in colour and has unevenly scattered bright spots and dots. Probably not only aesthetic values were decisive for the choice of this material. This flint is one of the best in terms of quality, which can be proved by the fact that it has been used since the late Palaeolithic. Also in the following ages, especially in the Neolithic, it was very often used for making tools. The artefact described comes from this period - from the Lublin-Volhynia culture. The people of this culture lived in the area of the present-day Lublin region about 6 thousand years ago. They dealt mainly with farming, but, as can be seen from the arrowhead we found, also with hunting. Obviously, a bow, which was an excellent tool for hunting, could just as easily have been used during fights in those times.

It is not known whether the arrowhead was a tool that was lost a long time ago (for example, an arrow that was shot and not found later), or whether it was part of the grave equipment, traces of which have not survived to our time.