Arrowheads and crossbow bolts

Arrowheads and crossbow bolts 
were forged from iron alloy. Their length varies between 4 and 8 cm and thickness between 0.5 cm and 1 cm. The chronological range from the 11th to the 14th century is also large. After conservation, the surfaces of the arrowheads are steel-grey in colour. To the touch, they are porous, the result of centuries of lying in the ground and corroding. The artefacts were found in 1963 by students of the Technical School of Building Ceramics in Fordon, on an outcrop of the Wyszogród settlement. It is often difficult to distinguish between arrowheads and boltheads. They had similar shapes and were similarly mounted on spars. The use of barbed arrowheads to arm arrows is clear, as is the use of massive arrowheads with quadrangular, rhomboidal leaves to arm crossbow bolts.