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Description: | Flint oblique arrowhead, sub-triangular in plan, with an oblique angle to one side, like a scalene triangle, and a flat base, where it was hafted on to the arrow shaft. The arrowhead is unimarginally worked on the left and right margins of the dorsal face. Flakes have also been taken off to flatten the arrowhead from the proximal end of the dorsal face across the medial ridge. There are areas of gloss from use-wear on the ventral face, on the tip at the distal end, and on the bulb of percussion at the proximal end.The flint is a mottled light grey colour, and quite opaque, having been exposed to the sun and temperature change over the millennia that it has been in the soil, and it probably derives from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 5:3.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar British oblique arrowhead on page 124, Fig.5.109, Green Type g, and another arrowhead on page 152, Fig.5.136, No.F147, which are both dated to the Later Neolithic.Keene (1999) illustrates similar oblique arrowheads from Beagle's Point, Lizard Project, on page 28, Fig.4, No.1, and from Davidstow Moor on page 32, Fig.62, No.L40, which are dated from the Later Neolithic.
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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