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BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Unique ID: LIN-84AE11
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
A 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 rounded notches in the base, flanking the central tang with a barb at either side. The tang is complete and extends beyond the limit of the barbs, of which only one is complete. The complete barb has a pointed terminal whereas the broken one appears like an oblique facet. The flint is covered with a chalky-white patina.
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.
Class: Barbed and tanged
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2500 BC
Date to: Circa 1150 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Width: 17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 8th January 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
Parish or ward: Wellingore (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK9954
Four figure Latitude: 53.074067
Four figure longitude: -0.523738
1:25K map: SK9954
1:10K map: SK95SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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