It’s not every day your pet rabbit digs up an arrowhead that is 2,000 years old, but that’s what happened to Samantha Hayduk.
Roughly a year ago her rabbit Nora was digging under its hutch at her parents home just outside of Prince Albert, Sask.
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The five-year-old bunny had dug a hole around two feet deep so Samantha went outside to clean up the mess.
“I found it (the arrowhead) just sitting on top of the dirt she had dug out, just sitting on top, almost as if she had wanted me to find it,” Hayduk told Global News.
It’s an extremely well shaped arrowhead, and it’s in good condition. She thought it was an interesting find but she kept it without checking much into its possible origins, until earlier this fall.
“It wasn’t until this semester, I’m in an archeology class at the U of S, and I thought you’re on the topic of arrowheads and maybe I should look into it and see how old it really was,” Hayduk explained.
“My professor took a few days with it, and she came back to me and said it closely resembles a Pelican Lake arrowhead, and it is likely around 2,000 years old.”
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It was quite a revelation, said Hayduk. However, she has no plans to part with the arrowhead.
“Although they are relatively uncommon they are not crazy expensive on the market,” she said, “and I think it’s worth it to me to just keep it as a memory of what Nora found.”
Hayduk is taking archeology as an elective, but she said the find has given her a renewed passion for the class.
“I never realized that they’re just so easy to find, anyone can find things like this anywhere, even a little bunny,” she said.