Bow find pics (facebook)

fusizoli · Post by **fusizoli** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:20 am

Have you seen this? (more pics in the album!)

Very interesting find!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

KenH · Post by **KenH** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:19 pm

Saw that. Pix are dark and there's no commentary, so I really don't know what I'm looking at.

fusizoli · Post by **fusizoli** » Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:44 pm

Two piece core, joint at the grip, grip-tip bone plates, separeted triangular cross section bone stringnock, the siyah bent from the core as I see.

It's looking a hun bow or related.

The carved Quiver with the toolmarks inside etc.

Usefull pics, but it looks someone found it somewhere and take it home.
Lot of information lost.
It happened time to time.

Uli · Post by **Uli** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:29 am

Yes very interesting !
IMHO the bone siyah nock is from another bow, and the side plates are missing..

its from a caucasian cave burial,
can we date it somehow ?
cave burials were most common from the old turks, though also found later. closed quivers should be 14th century or older.
bone plates are common in central asia during xiongnu, and eastern europe / pontic up to about 10th century.

any hints from the quiver and other stuff ?

fusizoli · Post by **fusizoli** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:19 pm

The side plates are there (without nock) . A bunch of pics on the link.
The siyah wood is very thin (without stingnock). That bone piece have to be the part of this. Bone overlay.