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Description: | Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. This arrowhead has been knapped from a light grey coloured piece of flint. It is sub-triangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. The arrowhead measures 23.9 mm in length, 17.7mm maximum width, and is 3.7mm thick. It weighs 1.16 grams. The tang of the arrowhead is 6.4mm long and 5.5mm 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 asymmetrical in shape with one barb (the left hand one) being damaged. It is likely that this damage is relatively recent and there is no reworking present. Both faces of the arrowhead have been retouched to create sharp edges to the blade of the arrowhead. The most work has been applied to the upper (dorsal face) which is more humped in profile that the lower (ventral). A small area of white cortex is present on the dorsal face suggesting that this arrowhead has been made from either a waste flake - or more likely from a piece of flint procured from a riverine or glacial source. This arrowhead is similar to the group described within Butler (who is summarising Green's': Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles') best described as a non-fancy barbed and tanged arrowhead being similar to the Sutton type, with pointed barbs (A) and a squared off tang (F), weighing under 8 grams (pp162-164). These are broadly dated to the Beaker period which spans the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, (2300-1500 BC).
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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