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Description: | A chisel arrowhead of large size; perhaps having a different use or being 'for show' but without gloss or damage to indicate any function. The plan is triangular. The small striking platform facet is extant on the right margin next to the sharp unmodified forward edge. The bulb of percussion is visible on the ventral surface of the soft hammer struck flake. Fine grey bown flint with large opaque cream inclusions was chosen and the big trimmed flake indicates that larger imported resources of Devon nodular flint may have been used rather than local beach pebbles. The flake blank has been trimmed straight with semi-abrupt removals; bifacially on one side from the small striking platform, leaving the opposite expanding lateral edge unmodified and sharp. The distal end of the flake has been truncated and trimmed straight with semi abrupt retouch only visible on the dorsal surface. The symmetrical isosceles triangle plan is maintained almost to the base which is more rounded and invasively thinned on the dorsal surface. Chris Butler in 'Prehistoric Flintwork' illustrates a similar example on page 161, fig. 67, 1.
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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