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Description: | Almost complete barbed and tanged flint arrowhead. This arrowhead is beautifully crafted. It has suffered a tiny amount of damage to its pointed tip, the inner corner of one barb and to the terminal of the tang, but is otherwise in perfect condition. The arrowhead is 34.76mm long, 31.42mm wide, 4.78mm thick and weighs 3.42g. The barb length is 9.6mm with a width of 8.08mm, whilst the tang length is 8.4mm with a width of 8mm. The arrowhead is bi-facially worked over all with ripple flaking. The two sides of the arrowhead form an angle of approximately 45 degrees. The flint is translucent and light grey in colour, with dark grey patches in the centre of the object. There are patches of white patina to one barb and some on the opposing face to this.
Flint arrowheads of this type were in use in the early Bronze Age sometime between 2500 and 1400BC. This arrowhead can be classified by Green 1980 as Conygar Hill type. An exact example can also be seen in Pierpoint 1981, figure 13, number 17. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -2500
-1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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