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ARROWHEAD
Unique ID: SUSS-BD7B02
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
The tip of a knapped flint arrowhead. It comes to a sharp point with regularly tapering sides and an irregular snap along the edge opposite the point. Both sides are covered by invasive shallow retouch with more abrupt retouch at the edges. It measures 28.5mm long, 18.5mm wide, 4.9mm thick and it weighs 2.00 grams.
Without the lower half of the arrowhead it is hard to be sure of its original form. The straight sides however may suggest it was a Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC - c.1150 BC) barbed and tanged arrowhead rather than a lead shaped Earlier Neolithic example.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 1150 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.5 mm
Width: 18.5 mm
Thickness: 4.9 mm
Weight: 2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 6th October 2009
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Rother (District)
To be known as: Near Ashburnham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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