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Unique ID: IOW-C372B6
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete flint arrowhead of probable Early Neolithic date (3500 BC - 2900 BC). Length 26.2mm, width 15.4mm and 2.9mm thick. Weight 0.89g. The grey coloured arrowhead appears to have been made on a thin flake. In plan, it is ogival-shaped with a rounded base. The lower part of each face has radiating ripples although the ripples are barely visible. Each edge has sub-parallel re-touch which cover the whole of each face close to the sharp point. Just below the point the implement is sub-lozenge shaped in cross section. The rounded base has fine retouch on one face only. The implement is in perfect condition.
Notes:
This arrowhead can be classified as a Green Type 3Al (Bond 2004, 123, fig. 5. 107).
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 2900 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.2 mm
Width: 15.4 mm
Thickness: 2.9 mm
Weight: 0.89 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 1980 - Tuesday 1st January 1985
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Other reference: IOW2006-74
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Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Bond, C. | 2005 | PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics | London | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | 123, fig. 5. 107 |