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Description: | Flint leaf-shaped arrowhead, broken and snapped into a kite-shape in plan, lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The dorsal and ventral faces are both retouched on the right and left margins, which meet to form a point. There is more invasive retouch on the right margin of each face, which may have aided in its ability to be more aero-dynamic. The base of the arrowhead might have been more rounded, but is now missing, and probably snapped off where it was originally attached to the arrow shaft. The arrowhead may have been used again, after it had broken, as one side appears to have been snapped deliberately, perhaps to even out the base, but its shortened length would have made it more difficult to haft.The flint is a mottled light to dark grey in colour with a small patch of cortex on the left margin of the dorsal face, which suggests that it is probably derived from a local beach pebble.Bond (2004) illustrates as similar leaf-shaped arrowheads on page 123, Figs.5.106 & 5.107, which are dated from the Earlier Neolithic. It is not possible to classify this arrowhead as it is broken.Mercer (1981) illustrates a similar broken arrowhead from Carn Brea that is now kite-shaped on page 125, Fig.54, No.L59, which is dated from the Earlier Neolithic.Butler (2005) illustrates a similar leaf-shaped arrowhead with one margin more invasively retouched than the other on both faces on page 124, Fig.49, No.8, which is dated from the Earlier 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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