WAW-84A027: Two views of a Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead.

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ARROWHEAD

Unique ID: WAW-84A027

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

An early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead. It is knapped from an opaque brown/grey coloured flint. Both the dorsal and ventral surfaces have re-touch around the edges. The arrowhead is 23mm long, 15.3mm wide and 4.2mm thick and weighs 1.66g.

Class: Leaf-Shaped

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 3500 BC
Date to: Circa 2900 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 23 mm
Width: 15.3 mm
Thickness: 4.2 mm
Weight: 1.66 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 15th March 2004 - Thursday 15th April 2004

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked

Spatial metadata

Region: West Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP1051
Four figure Latitude: 52.157188
Four figure longitude: -1.855243
1:25K map: SP1051
1:10K map: SP15SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

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Recording Institution: WAW
Created: 19 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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