Record ID: WMID-DDE216
Object type: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Coventry
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete barbed and tanged flint arrowhead of Early Bronze Age dating (c. 2500 BC to c. 1500 BC). Approximately 95% of the arrowhead is present, with one barb being incomplete. The arrowhead has been knapped from a mottled mid grey coloured piece of flint. It is broadly sub-triangular in plan and lentoid in cross section. The tang is a sub square shape and the surviving barb is sub triangular in plan. The arrowhead has been knapped using both direct and indirect percussion techniques. Both long sides / edges of the arrowhead have been finely retouched to create sharp edges. …
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: WMID1017
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Coventry
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a late Bronze Age socketed axe. Blade fragment. The blade is asymmetrical, suggesting the axe had been used. The axe was probably broken in antiquity as the break is smooth and covered by a patina.
Created on: Monday 11th October 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST MIDLANDS ALLESLEY', grid reference and parish protected.