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Description: | An iron arrow head which has a rounded socket instead of a tang. It is 52.9mm long and 17.2mm wide. The blade is a long triangular shape and seems to be flat though the corrosion could be obscuring details. The arrowhead has barbs which appear to be straight not curved, but one is missing and the other is broken so the shape is not certain. There is some damaged to one side of the blade and to the socket, which is 9.4mm thick. The iron is corroded but seems to be stable.
Arrowheads are notoriously difficult to date. Barbed arrows or spearheads are rare from Roman contexts and tend to be larger than this example (Manning 1976, page 20), suggesting that this is probably medieval. Borg (in Saunders 1991) divides medieval arrowheads into four types. This fits best with the Spearhead type. Although they often have an early date attributed to them, they were apparently used throughout the medieval period. It is suggested that broader arrowheads were used for hunting and narrower ones like this are more likely to have been used in war. It is possible that the arrowhead could be associated with periphery skirmishes connected to the Battle of Towton in which was fought nearby in AD 1461. | 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: | 1066
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Amy Downes | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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