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Description: | A flint leaf-shaped arrowhead (length: 24.7mm; width: 17.2mm; thickness; 5mm; weight: 1.79g) with a possibly broken straight end and pointed tip. The surface of both sides has been pressure-flaked with knapping on the curved sides of the lenticular cross-section , working from the centre and projecting outwards. There is a substantial amount of trimmed working along the edges and pointed tip.Leaf-shaped pressure-flaked arrowheads are the high point of the earlier English Neolithic flint industry. They usually have a flat or lenticular cross-section and are asymmetrical in shape, with the most common form having a rounded base and a roughly triangular tip (Whittle, 1977, page 75).Whittle, A, W, R, 'The Earlier Neolithic of S. England and its Continental Background', BAR Supplementary Series 35, 1977, page 75.
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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