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Description: | A petit tranchet arrowhead made from a medial fragment of a crested blade with the breaks trimmed with equal abrupt retouch to give two converging blunt backed sides. The shortest blade margin has traces of nodular flint cortex and the longer blade margin was likely used as the penetrating edge. This has recieved some damage. The notch in the blade may have been from impact with bone or a miss and striking the ground. This edge would also have been vulnerable to recent ploughing and treading damage which seems likely on the rest of the edge. The flint is of an unusual colour for assemblages in this locality, being like a translucent amber. Butler (2005) shows a similar plan of petit tranchet arrowhead on page 159, fig.66, No.5.
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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