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Description: | An incomplete Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC - c.1150 BC) barbed and tanged arrowhead, missing most of one barb and with a probably damaged tip. It measures 40.61x26.90x4.73mm and weighs 4.32g.The arrowhead is bifacially worked, sub-triangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in cross-section. There are two round ended notches in the base, creating the barbs either side of the central tang. The arrowhead has semi-invasive semi-abrupt parallel retouch down both edges of one face, with a more abrubt line of flake removal in a line alogn the centre; the other face has all-over semi-abrupt retouch. The flint is light buff/ grey in colour and translucent at the edges, where it is thinnest.In "Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics", Bond (2004, p.205) comments that the date range for barbed and tanged arrowheads is taken to be implicated, in Wessex in particular, with the onset of the Beaker cultural phase but also continues in use through the Early Bronze Age into the Middle Bronze Age.
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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