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Description: | White patinated flint. Rhomboid Point fragment. This object is from the tip of a finely knapped and pressure flaked diamond shaped or rhomboid elongated point, of lozenge section. Though termed arrowheads or spearheads, these objects were superbly finished, and seem too fine to have served as practical projectile or weapon points. Some may rather have been made and deposited as examples of high quality flint working, with greater social than practical implications. Such points are known in the region from East Yorkshire's Neolithic round barrows, and also south of the Humber, as from Risby Warren, North Lincolnshire. The extent of overall patination suggests this example was detached from the parent object in antiquity. Suggested date: Middle Neolithic, 3500-2700 BC.Length: 18.6mm, Width: 9.1mm, Thickness: 2.5mm, Weight: 0.26gms.
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