Record ID: SUSS-BA5BDD
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, flint, oblique arrowhead, later neolithic in date, 4500-2000 BC. The arrowhead is made from a milky white flint and is a single barbed arrowhead. The barb is long and cresent shaped, emerging from one side of the triangular head. The tip of the arrow has been lost, probably in antiquity as the break is patinated. Thewhole object is triangular in shape with a single barb. There is long, scaled retouch that is intrusive and has been used to shape the piece giving it a narrow oval cross section. Examples of similar single barb arrowheads can be found in Butler 2005, fig.66…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.