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Description: | A complete, Neolithic, knapped, flint, large probable arrow head. Leaf shaped, large arrow head or possible spear head. The ventral surface has a bulb of percussion with a bulbar scar. There are concentric ripples up to the point, the dorsal surface comes up to a rise and gradual fall with a segment of the cortex on the lower right proximal border. There is secondary retouching on both sides. The flint is black in colour and not very opaque. This lithic is likely to date to 6500-2900BC. Ref. Detector Finds 5, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 2002, page 9-15 fig. 8. This lithic measures 55.00mm long, 33.00mm wide and weighs 15.73g.
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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