TOOLS OF WORK

Name of the exhibit

Hoe

Brief description

This tool was possibly used as an adze for processing timber for constructing structural parts of the wooden fortress fortifications. The blade lower edge and the sleeve edge are broken.

Period/date

14th–15th centuries

Manufacturing material

Iron

Dimensions

Preserved part of the tool length – 6,2 cm,
blade width – 6,8 cm
sleeve length – 6,2 cm
sleeve diameter ≈ 4,2 cm

Place of storage, inventory number

The Archaeological museum of IA NAS of Ukraine, PSE-2021, Tiahynka village, exc.3, sq.8, №75.

First publication

«Fortetsia Tiahyn. Arkheolohichni doslidzhennia 2019-2021 rr.». Authors: D.Ya.Aliadinova, O.V.Afanasieva, S.O.Biliaieva, N.-D.A.Bimbirayte, O.V.Hrabovska, V.A.Hrytsaienko, K.S.Hulenko, M.M.Iievlev, O.Ye.Malchenko, O.V.Manihda, M.S.Serheieva, O.Ye.Fialko, O.V.Chubenko. Responsible editor N.-D.A.Bimbirayte, Kyiv-Kherson, 2021, p. 39, ill 24.