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Description: | An incomplete flint late Neolithic to early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead dating to the period c. 2700 - 1600 BC. The arrowhead is sub-triangular in shape with convex sides and one intact rounded barb. The other barb is missing due to an old break. The tang is longer than the surviving barb and is oblique. The arrowhead exhibits invasive and semi-invasive semi-abrput parallel retouch around the edges of both the dorsal and ventral surfaces. There is an unretouched area in the centre of both sides. The flint is a semi-translucent dark grey with frequent light grey specks.It measures 24.25mm in length, 16.01mm maximum width, 1.22mm minimum width, is 2.97mm thick and weighs 1.27g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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