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Description: | A transverse or petit tranchet arrowhead from a source of fine grey brown and opaque cream flint. The flake blank may have been just small enough to have been from a local beach pebble, but larger nodules were also used from Devon. The ventral surface is unmodified, unlike a chisel arrowhead and shows expanding ripples from a striking platform close to the edge of the arrowhead plan. The striking platform and bulb of percussion have been removed by an unexpected abruptly worked notch into the right edge of the plan where the free sharp edge meets the shoulder. The opposite edge is more typical with the flake blank truncated by a concave line of abrupt retouch and leaving the unmodified thin tang. The arrowhead may have been disgarded due to its lack of symmetry or perhaps tidied with retouch after being damaged on the right of the cutting edge from being fired and hitting something hard. Chris Butler in 'Prehistoric Flintwork' illustrates similar examples on page 161, fig. 67; 12,13.
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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ARROWHEAD
Probable flint petit tranchet arrowhead…
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