Slučajni nalazi prahistorijskog oružja iz Bihaćkog polja
Accidental Findings of Prehistoric Weapons from the Bihać-Field

Summary/Abstract: Accidental finds elaborated are: a bronze hollow axe from the village of Cavkici, an iron hollow axe and spears with parts of wooden shafts, and probably a hoe, a chisel made of iron and a handle of bone, from the right bank of the Una River in the village of Kostela; and finally seven spearheads taken out from the Klokot: river bed, all in the wider area of the Bihac Field. The bronze axe (T. I, 1) by its decoration has an analogy in the depot from Bizovac (Croatia), dated to the end of the B.A. and in Ha A1 period. The iron axe (T. I, 2) is similar to some specimens from Glasinac and Donja Dolina, as well as to older specimens from the eastern Alpine area dated to 6 century B. C. The better preserved spear (T. II, 3) responds to spears found earlier in Kostel, on the left bank of the Una River, dated approximately to 600 B. C. From the spearheads from Klokot, on the basis of the closest analogies, two of them (T. II, 1, 2) are dated to 6th century B. C., three (T. II, 3, 4, 5) to the period from 5th to 3rd cc B. C., while the last two (T. II, 6, 7) are designated to a rather broad time span from 3rd to the end of Ist cc B. C. The bronze axe is assigned to the Protoyapodic inhabitants of this area, while the rest of weapons belong to the armament of Yapods, who lived by the middle Una River during the last millennium B. C. In the further text the hitherto known real finds of weapons are mentioned, as well as weapons shown on the well known objects of stone and bronze with figurai decoration from the Yapodic rests from the ’knee' of the Una near Bihac.

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