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Description: | A complete Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint arrowhead (2700 BC-1601 BC).This arrowhead has been manufactured on a flake as part of a bulb of percussion can be seen on the ventral face. It is sub-triangular in plan and cross-section. Each face has been retouched throughout the length of each side. The tang tapers is in width and thickness to an oblique base.The flint is grey with a reddish tinge and there are small areas of buff cortex at the tip on the dorsal face and at the base of the tang.Height: 30.55mm; width: 18.58mm; thickness: 6.62mm. Weight: 2.72g.Butler (2005, 162-165) provides a discussion on barbed and tanged arrowheads and also on those with a tang only.
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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