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Represented is a «hoard» of agricultural tools from the outskirts of Staryi Kalkayiv village of Poltava Oblast (the Sula River) accidentally found in spring 2004. It contained a sickle and a damaged ard tip. A haft sickle is of typical form and proportions which ultimately make it close to tools for harvesting of a contemporary type. Sickles with such type of bonding are known since the beginning of the 1st millennium, but similar proportions are more typical since the last quarter of the millennium. According to the classification by Yu.A. Krasnov, the ard tip belongs to I B 2 type. It has an unclosed hub and insignificant asymmetry. Such tip (without a coulter) could be used in an ard with horizontally fixed ploughshare. Its analogies are numerous and known at wide territories since the last quarter of the 1st millennium. Both items are quite peculiar for the period since the 8th c. to the Kyiv Rus period. Taking into consideration a general tendency of settling the region and the form and proportions of an ardtip (some larger then in the period before Kyiv Rus), the «hoard» can be dated by the Ancient Rus period.

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