An antler tool from the area of ​​the island at the confluence of the Vistula and Narew rivers. It may be thousands of years old.

“I just wanted to have a drink and relax. I looked at a piece of a branch, but it was strangely patinated. I deal professionally with fossils and minerals, so I looked closely at the find and saw a strangely even hole in it. I thought that it might be the work of human hands, or to put it bluntly, an archaeological relic. I asked Pogotowiearcheologiczne.pl for help with identification” – Damian Trzybiński, discoverer, researcher at the Biological and Chemical Sciences Centre of the University of Warsaw, and privately a sailor by passion, described his discovery.

He made the discovery next to the island at the confluence of the Vistula and Narew rivers.

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– On August 18, the finder of the artifact contacted me. I had no doubts. Without a doubt, it is an antler hoe. It is a prehistoric artifact, prehistoric, from the Stone Age, 9 or 10 thousand years before Christ. Such tools are known and are usually identified with Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic sites from the Stone Age – Robert Wyrostkiewicz from the Archaeological Emergency tells us. – It could be an artifact made of deer or reindeer antlers – he adds.

Antler tools were dominant before the Bronze and Iron Ages. A horn hoe discovered near Modlin was reported to the conservation services the same day.

“On August 18, a participant of a sailing trip probably found a horn hoe from the Stone Age. It will be possible to determine the exact age of the object after using the radiocarbon dating method,” the Mazovian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments reported on the Facebook profile.

This is the second such artifact found at the mouth of the Narew and the Vistula. The first horn hoe was found, also by accident, in 2015.