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Description: | Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. This arrowhead has been knapped from a light pale orange / light tan (honey) colour piece of flint. It measures 32 mm in length, 19mm maximum width, and is 3.5mm thick. It weighs 2.77 grams.The tang of the arrowhead is 7mm long and 7.2mm wide. The arrowhead has been knapped using a number of different techniques, including direct and indirect percussion, as well as pressure / ripple flaking. It is asymetrical in shape with the point and one barb being damaged. The damage to the point is recent. However, the damage to the barb has been badly reworked in antiquity to create a usuable/ functionable arrowhead. Both the sides of the arrowhead have been retouched to create sharp edges. This arrowhead is similar to the group described as Sutton A (example d) in Green(1980: p122) 'Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles'.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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