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Description: | Three iron tanged and barbed arrowheads of medieval date. Each arrowhead has suffered some damage to the barbs with only one example retaining any length of a barb. Each arrowhead has a long, slender and tapering tang, a triat usually seen in European arrowheads, unlike the English arrowheads which were usually socketed. Small barbed arrowheads could be used for hunting game, as they were designed to remain inside the body of the prey, but they were also firmly fixed into the arrow shaft so that the could be removed from the prey and reused. The location of these finds suggests that these were indeed used for hunting; Snelsmore Common became such in the medieval period. General 'high' medieval date of .c 1200-1450 AD.The best surviving arrowhead (with barb intact) has a head that measures 53.6mm long x 10.3mm wide x 3.2mm thick. The tang is broadly square in plan and section and measures 123.1mm long and 3.4mm thick. This example weighs 8.6 grams. All of the arrowheads are of much the same size and length.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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