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ARROWHEAD
Unique ID: KENT-CA0C83
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete flint Late-Neolithic ripple flaked arrowhead (c. 3300 BC-c. 2100 BC).
Description: This arrowhead is triangular in plan with a slightly concave base. The arrowhead appears to have had a barb on bottom left side although it appears to have beens snapped away. The arrowhead has been formed by a mixture of short scaled low-angle retouch save for half of the dorsal face where the retouch is formed from invasive parrallel low-angle retouch. The arrowhead is dark brown becoming lighter and more transluscent towarsds its edges.
Measurements: 27.33mm long, 20.95mm wide, 5.29mm thick and 2.55g in weight.
Class: Ripple Flaked
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 2100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.33 mm
Width: 20.95 mm
Thickness: 5.29 mm
Weight: 2.55 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Maidstone (District)
Parish or ward: Otham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ8053
Four figure Latitude: 51.24776543
Four figure longitude: 0.5777019
1:25K map: TQ8053
1:10K map: TQ85SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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