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Unique ID: SOM-9C3444
Object type certainty: Certain
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Knapped flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2500 BC - c.1150 BC). The arrowhead is bifacially worked and sub-triangular in plan. There are two round ended notches in the base, flanking the central tang with a barb at either side. The tang is twice as wide and longer than the barbs although it has lost the corner. Both barbs are possibly complete with angled ends coming to a point at the base (obliquely shaped). The arrowhead has semi-invasive semi-abrupt parallel retouch down both edges and across the point on both sides, with an unretouched area in the cnetre of both sides. The flint is pale grey with some medium grey areas. It is 30.1mm long, 21.9mm wide and 6.3mm thick; it weighs 3.02 grams.
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 in particular, with the onset of the Beaker cultural phase but also continues in use through the Early Bronze Age into the Middle Bronze Age.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2500 BC
Date to: Circa 1150 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.1 mm
Width: 21.9 mm
Thickness: 6.3 mm
Weight: 3.02 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 11th August 2011
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Other reference: Somerset reciept 020776
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: ST1630
Four figure Latitude: 51.063168
Four figure longitude: -3.200088
1:25K map: ST1630
1:10K map: ST13SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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 | 205 |