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Record ID: WILT-34B6C7
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flint late Neolithic to early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead dating to the period c. 2700 - 1600 BC. The arrowhead is sub-triangular in shape with convex sides and one intact rounded barb. The other barb is missing due to an old break. The tang is longer than the surviving barb and is oblique. The arrowhead exhibits invasive and semi-invasive semi-abrput parallel retouch around the edges of both the dorsal and ventral surfaces. There is an unretouched area in the centre of both sides.
It measures 21.05mm in length, 13.55mm maximum width, is 2.45mm thick and w…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2016
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Record ID: WILT-FBD123
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A flint barbed and tanged arrowhead of Early Bronze Age date (2500 BC - 1500 BC). The tip of the point and the barbs are missing. The tang is probably also slightly damaged. The arrowhead has been bifacially worked with pressure flaking along the edges in particular.
The flint has a mid grey to white patina and the arrowhead measures 27.95mm in length, 16.75mm wide, 3.55mm thick and weighs 1.59 grams.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2015
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