File:Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead (FindID 828593).jpg
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[edit]| Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead | |||
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Somerset County Council, Wil Partridge, 2017-02-13 12:22:24 |
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Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead |
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English: A late Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead, probably dating to 2500-1500 BC. The arrow head is sub triangular in plan with a square tang. The arrowhead has been worked bifacially, with long, scaled, semi-abrupt retouch around its edge, except for on the mesial edge of the right barb, where the retouch is low angle. The arrowhead is assymetrical in plan, and the right barb is much better defined than on the left, where the tang and barb still curve into eachother, the left mesial edge extends further than on the right. The centre of the dorsal face is smooth and unworked, the ventral face by comparison has had a large flake removed from it, meaning there is a dip behind the point on this face. The flint is a translucent brown with white cloudy patches.
Length: 22.6, Width: 13.0mm, Thickness: 3.9mm, Weight: 1.06g. Butler (2005: 162) notes how such arrowheads are found on sites throughout the period 2500-1500 BC, and that its light weight and small Length/breadth ratio would characterise it as a Sutton type arrowhead (ibid: 163-164). Interestingly, the arrowhead appears to be unfinished, to judge from the assymetrical tangs and small section of finer retouch. The large flake removed from the ventral face presumably being a mistake. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Somerset | ||
| Date | between 2500 BC and 1500 BC | ||
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FindID: 828593 Old ref: SOM-34DC37 Filename: SOM34DC37.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/601494 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/601494/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/828593 |
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