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ARROWHEAD
Unique ID: CORN-53A46D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Flint barbed and tanged arrowhead dating from the Beaker period, from the Late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c.2500-1500 BC). The arrowhead is triangular in plan with curved sides and lenticular in both profile and section. It has low angle retouch on about half of both faces, with fine pressure-flaked retouch on all of the margins. Both barbs are pointed and the tang is wide and slightly longer than the barbs and gently rounded at the base, placing it within the Beaker barbed and tanged arrowhead group Sutton B, Type g, of Green's 1980 classification illustrated in Bond (2004) on page 125, fig.5.111. The arrowhead is made on a tertiary flake of translucent dark grey-brown flint and is not patinated and likely derived from imported flint, perhaps from Beer Head in Devon, and not from local beach flint.
Bond (2004) illustrates two similar arrowheads, from Windmill Hill, Avebury on page 147, fig.5.133, nos.F179-180, which date from the Beaker period, c.2500-1600 BC.
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 1600 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.5 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 1.35 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2000 - Sunday 1st January 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 4
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Altarnun (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SX2481
Four figure Latitude: 50.60211228
Four figure longitude: -4.48843765
1:25K map: SX2481
1:10K map: SX21NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 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 | 125 & 147, figs.5.110 & 5.133, | Sutton B, Type g, nos.F179-180 |
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