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Description: | A barbed and tanged flint arrowhead with a recent break on the tang exposing a medium-dark grey flint. Another small 'recent' chip occurs on one side of the arrowhead. A small part of the tip is also missing but this is an ancient (patinated) break. The arrowhead is patinated blue white but curiously only over part of the surface. Interestingly the areas of unpatinated surface, which are black, appear to be limited to the central and base areas of the arrowhead and suggest a possible haft/adhesive mark. Such an occurrance is extremely rare; Green (1980) cited only 15 examples of flint missile points from Britain as preserving evidence of hafting. Only two of these were in the form of differential patination and one from differential staining. A few other arrowheads are known sharing this phenomenon; the leaf shaped arrowheads from the excavations at Crickley Hill, Glos (Dr P Dixon, University of Nottingham) and from Hurst Fen, Mildenhall. However, only one other barbed and tanged arrowhead, that from Mildenhall fen is similar to the Southery example. | 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: | -2150
-1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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