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ARROWHEAD
Unique ID: SOM-30C343
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Late Neolithic flint oblique arrowhead, probably dating to c. 3300-2400 BC. Worked from a tertiary flake of opaque white/grey flint. The arrowhead is sub-triangular in plan with a broken, truncated point. Both edges are straight and with one edge continuing past the base to form a sub-trapezoidal barb. The base is indented. The ventral face of the arrowhead features invasive, low angle, scalar retouch down its left side and continuing along the base and inside of the barb. On the dorsal face the retouch is far less extensive, limited to long, semi-abarupt, scalar retouch at the base.
Dimensions: length 19.6mm; width 17.6mm; thickess 3.3mm; weight 1.28g.
Class: Oblique
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 3300 BC
Date to: Circa 2400 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.6 mm
Width: 17.6 mm
Thickness: 3.3 mm
Weight: 1.28 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 019290
Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Mendip (District)
Parish or ward: Westbury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST5149
Four figure Latitude: 51.23806446
Four figure longitude: -2.70327198
1:25K map: ST5149
1:10K map: ST54NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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