Record ID: WMID-1E02B2
Object type: LEAF ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: City of Stoke-on-Trent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A knapped flint leaf-shaped arrowhead dating from the Earlier Neolithic period (c.3500BC - c.2500BC). Length: 41.5mm. Width: 20.7mm. Thickness: 7.2mm. Mass: 6.0g. The arrowhead is pointed oval shaped in plan. The arrowhead is made from bifacially worked flint flake, which is brown in colour with some opaque light brown cortex-like inclusions visible on both faces. The tip at the distal end is pointed. There is a small nick in the tip at the proximal end, and it appears slightly more rounded than the distal tip. The arrowhead has invasive retouch on both the dorsal and the ventral face…
Created on: Friday 24th October 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penkhull', grid reference and parish protected.