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BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Unique ID: BUC-700F77
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
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, with two notches in the base, flanking a central tang with a barb at either side. One barb has completely broken off. The tang, and probably the other barb, have lost their tips. The arrowhead has invasive shallow parallel retouch on both faces, with a patch of cortex remaining in the centre of one face. The flint is dark grey. It is 33.63mm long, 23.31mm wide and 5.48mm thick; it weighs 4.09 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 actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
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
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.63 mm
Width: 23.31 mm
Thickness: 5.48 mm
Weight: 4.09 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 19th October 2011
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
To be known as: Wing
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bond, C. | 2005 | PAS Guide to the Identification, Assessment and Recording of Lithics | London | The Portable Antiquities Scheme |
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