The archaeological collection from the Borsk museum of local history

The paper describes a collection of random finds from the funds of the Borsk Museum of Local History. All of them originate from the territory of the Borsk district of the Samara region. The collection includes items from different eras. The Stone Age is represented with an item made from the elk’s horn. Unique typological characteristics of the object allow us to consider it not as an ordinary clutch, but, perhaps, as a sceptre top. The most numerous finds is a group of materials from the Bronze Age, including stone axes, a pestle, a bronze sickle, a bronze dart tip, a clay spindle and bone a bead. A morphological analysis of the axes leads to the conclusion that they belong to the Fatyanovo and Balanovo cultures and they are the earliest of this type of objects in the Samara Volga region. The tip of the dart, according to its characteristics, has analogies in the monuments of the Abashevo culture. The sickle certainly belongs to the Srubna culture. Of particular interest is the ornamented clay spindle...