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Unique ID: LEIC-9D71E6
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Bronze age (Early) barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, 23mm in length, 16mm in width and 3mm thick with a weight of 1.13grams. The object is triangular in form with a flattened lozenge cross section and a brown patina. It is bi-facially worked with invasive, scaled low angle re-touch. It has a wide rectangular tang and its barbs are represented largely by a semi-circular recess in the base either side of the tang.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2350 BC
Date to: Exactly 1500 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 23 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 1.13 g
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Other reference: 478
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SK7625
Four figure Latitude: 52.81719198
Four figure longitude: -0.87375008
1:25K map: SK7625
1:10K map: SK72NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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