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Description: | Incomplete knapped flint arrowhead dating from the Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC - c.1150 BC). The arrowhead is formed from a large tertiary flake; the bulb of percusison has been removed by retouch although the percussion waves are clearly visible. It is symetrical and sub-triangular in plan with a broken point and a slightly concave but very thick base with what appear to be accidental breaks or possibly the unretouched side of the flake running across the base. The dorsal face has been completely retouched with shallow invasive retouch in the centre and more abrupt long scalar retouch down each side. The ventral face has some scalar chipping at the edges but this may be an accidental product of the retouch on the other side rather than deliberate. The flint is mid-grey. It is 26.5mm long, 29.4mm wide and 5.9mm thick; it weighs 4.77 grams.As well as having a broken point the unusually thick butt and lack of retouch on the ventral face, may suggest the arrowhead was unfinished.
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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