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BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Unique ID: WMID-C579F7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age. Mass: 1.2g. Length: 22mm; extant width: 18mm. Thickness: 4mm. The off-white/grey flint arrowhead is sub-triangular in plan, with two notches in the basal area either side of a central tang, forming a barb to one side, but the second barb is missing. The arrowhead has invasive retouch on the dorsal face. The flatter ventral face only has retouch on the tip and the barb and notches in the basal area. In "Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics", Bond (2004, p.205) comments that the date range for barbed and tanged arrowheads is taken to be implicated in Wessex with the onset of the Beaker cultural phase but also can continue into in use through the Early Bronze Age into the Middle Bronze Age. As such, the barbed and tanged arrowhead recorded here dates from the late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500BC - c.1150BC).
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: 2500 BC
Date to: 1150 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Width: 18 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 1.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2008 - Saturday 1st November 2008
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Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dudley (Metropolitan District)
District: Dudley (Metropolitan District)
To be known as: Dudley
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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