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Description: | A leaf shaped flint arrowhead dating from the early Neolithic period, 4000 - 3500 BC. It is made from a flake of dark grey opaque flint with some well developed patina at the tip of the dorsal face, and some speckles of patina forming on the rest of the object. It is ogival with a round base in plan and a pointed oval in section. It is invasively worked with scaled , low-angle covering retouch on both faces. It is 40.9mm long, 26mm wide and 5.4mm thick. it weighs 6.02gm.Similar arrowheads are illustrated in Butler, 2005, Prehistoric Flintwork, pages 123 and 124.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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