Description

Sometimes it is difficult to determine whether a projectile is being used based on the iron reinforcement alone. As in the case of a 16.6 centimeter long tip from grave 2 from Glauberg. It ended up in the ground together with two arrowheads as a grave offering. While the sleeve dimensions of the two smaller tips suggest their use as arrowheads, the use of the tip with the doubled central ridge presents a certain problem. With a sleeve diameter of 17 millimeters, the tip seems too thick for a Celtic arrow, but too thin for a conventional spear to be. The diameter is more reminiscent of a light javelin that was thrown with the help of a slingshot aid. Such spear throwers were used by numerous indigenous peoples and were already known in the last ice age. Contemporaries of the Celts living on the Mediterranean also used the slingshot aid in the form of a leather loop, which they called ankyle or amentum.