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Description: | A barbed and tanged arrowhead of translucent dark brown flint. One of the barbs is wider but has been cleanly snapped perhaps in antiquity. The tip has also been lost but trimmed with abrupt retouch. The preform on each side of the piece has been completely over-flaked but a barbed and tanged arrowhead nearby showed signs of an opposed platform preform. The profile is thin and lenticular as is the lateral cross-section and the edges straight and sharp.Tthe finishing flakework is invasive and made up of large feathered flake scars and sub-parallel bladelets. The work feels highly competent and unfussy with no stylised shaping to the barbs or tang. Preparation of the blank must have been good and no significant problems encountered with fine , consistent flint. John Lord in his DVD; 'Making a Bronze Age barbed & tanged arrowhead' takes 20 minutes to make something as fine. A novice might take longer to make something less satisfactory. Bond(2004) on page 125 shows Sutton's classification of barbed and tanged arrowheads and this is'Sutton bh'.
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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