These are the post-conservation images of a tanged arrow that was in the process of being manufactured.
This morphology for an arrowhead of Scandinavian origin.
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The iron was stored for several years in airtight bins and silica gel was packed into a tube (Right in this image) to slowly extract the moisture. The blue stripped was checked every few months to see if the gel needed drying.
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But the item (right) is believed to be an anvil. We found 5 and they look like big nails. They were driven into a block of wood and the top surface was used to beat the metal.
