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Description: | Flint oblique arrowhead, triangular in plan with a hollow base, and lozenge-shaped in profile and section. The base with its slight barbs on either side would have been hafted on to the arrow shaft. There is invasive retouch on both the dorsal and ventral faces, and on all margins and at the distal and proximal ends. The colour of the flint is a slightly translucent mottled orange-brown colour which suggests that it was probably derived from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 3:2 which is common for this type of oblique arrowhead.Bond (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 53, Fig.5.12, No.L123, which is referred to as an 'oblique' arrowhead, and another on page 124, Fig.5.109, Letter e, which is referred to as a 'British oblique' arrowhead, (both Green's 1980 typology) which are dated from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.Keene (1999) illustrates a similar oblique arrowhead from Davidstow Moor on page 32, Fig.62, No.L40, which is dated from the Late Neolithic.
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