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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 an elongated triangle in plan, with two notches in the base, between a central tang and a barb at either side. The point has broken away. One barb has also been lost, the other is small with a rounded end. The tang is relatively large and now rectangular as the end has broken away. The arrowhead has invasive shallow semi-parallel retouch on both faces. The flint is darkk brown to grey. It is 31.4 mm long, 5.7mm thick; it weighs 3.4 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. With the short barbs and larger tang, possibly with a triangular end this could be of the Kilmarnock or possibly Ballyclare type (Butler 2005:163-4).
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