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Description: | Incomplete flint arrowhead, sub-triangular in plan so possibly and oblique arrowhead, made of a burnt opaque altered shiny black spalled fragment of a flake with bifacial working before being destroyed by fire. On one side there is invasive working from a complete edge with subsequent semi-abrupt retouch. Meeting them from the missing edge are other invasive scars. On the other side from that edge there is invasive flaking. The rest of the flake surface is removed by spalling. The flake remnant has broadly parallel surfaces except at the complete sharp wedge-profiled edge and is not twisted or curved in profile so consistent with an arrowhead design; bifacially flaked knives may have similarites too. Butler (2005) illustrates both these kinds of Later Neolithic arrowheads on page 161, fig.67.
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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