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Description: | Flint leaf-shaped arrowhead, kite-shaped in plan, with its point having broken off in antiquity. The arrowhead is bimarginally worked around its entire edge and on both the ventral and dorsal faces.The flint is a mottled light to dark grey colour, probably made from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 2:1.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar leaf-shaped arrowhead on page 123, Fig.5.106, Green Type 1C (c), and a leaf-shaped arrowhead on page 133, Fig.5.119, No.F26, which are both dated to the Earlier Neolithic.Keene (1999) illustrates a similar leaf-shaped arrowhead from Carn Brea on page 14, Fig.53, No.L42, and another from Goonhilly Downs, the Lizard, on page 23, Fig.17, No.28, which are both dated from the Earlier Neolithic.
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