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Description: | Iron possible Arrowhead fragment. Wrought iron V-shaped object with finer and probably sharpened edges along its two long sides. This is possibly the blade from a barbed hunting arrowhead whose broad blade was intended to cause blood loss to slow and weaken a hunter's quarry and to enable hounds to follow its trail. If so, it is parted from the socket to which it was possibly joined as a separate component. The manufacture of arrowheads with separate components attached by brazing for military use is recorded in the later medieval period, and some general purpose arrowheads from Tewkesbury - assumed to be associated with the battle of 1471 but possibly from a nearby hunting park - have been shown to have had separate iron blades brazed to their sockets. Reported together with carpentry tools and arrowheads from the same area. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500.Length: 41.6mm, Width: 24.9mm, Thickness: 3.7mm, Weight: 5.52gms.
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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