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Description: | Flint leaf-shaped arrowhead that has been bifacially reworked or retouched on the entire edge of both the dorsal and ventral faces. The reworking extends further onto the ventral surface from the proximal end of the right margin of the arrowhead, over the remains of the bulb of percussion. A fracture on the dorsal face, running at right angles to the medial ridge, towards the proximal end obstructs working in this area.
There is no cortex remaining on the flake and the flake would have been chosen particularly for an arrowhead as its medial ridge runs centrally, but at an angle, the length of the flake and will add strength to it, in use as well as in manufacture. This suggests it is a tertiary flake. The colour of the flint ranges from a dark grey to a light grey and the length to breadth ratio is about 1:1.
Local leaf-shaped arrowheads were mass-produced from sites like Carn Brea from about 3800 BC, but this one may have been made earlier on the south coast from local beach pebbles.
Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 123, Fig.5.107, Type 4Ab, which he dates to the Earlier Neolithic, c.4000-3300 BC. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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