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Description: | Barbed and tanged flint arrowhead dating from the Early Bronze Age, i.e. ca. 2150-1500BC. The arrowhead has been knapped from a light pale orange /light tan (honey)-coloured piece of flint. It was manufactured using a number of different techniques, including direct and indirect percussion, as well as pressure / ripple flaking which can be seen on both surfaces. It is symmetrical in shape and undamaged. Both the sides of the arrowhead have been retouched to create sharp edges. However, one barb has a square, unfinished-looking terminal while the other has a finely knapped and retouched rounded end which is clearly finished. It is likely that the arrowhead was unfinished when it was lost or deposited in the lake, but it could have also been used in its unfinished state if needed and could thus have been a hunting loss. Its fresh, crisp condition without patination/weathering suggests burial until recent exposure. 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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