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Description: | Knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC - c.1150 BC). The arrowhead is bifacially worked and sub-triangular in plan, with two notches in the base, between a central tang and a barb at either side. Both barbs have broken off with only the stub of one remaining; the tip has also broken off. The arrowhead has invasive shallow scaler retouch on both faces, with an unretouched area in the centre of one face. The flint is pale grey. It is 33.3mm long, 20.7mm wide and 3.9mm thick; it weighs 2.67 grams. In "Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics", Bond (2004, p.205) comments that the date range for barbed and tanged arrowheads is taken to be implicated, in Wessex in particular, with the onset of the Beaker cultural phase but also continues in use through the Early Bronze Age into the Middle Bronze Age.
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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