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arrowhead
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Graham Hill, 2011-10-04 16:15:19
Title
arrowhead
Description
English: A barbed and tanged arrowhead of translucent dark brown flint. One of the barbs is wider but has been cleanly snapped perhaps in antiquity. The tip has also been lost but trimmed with abrupt retouch. The preform on each side of the piece has been completely over-flaked but a barbed and tanged arrowhead nearby showed signs of an opposed platform preform. The profile is thin and lenticular as is the lateral cross-section and the edges straight and sharp.Tthe finishing flakework is invasive and made up of large feathered flake scars and sub-parallel bladelets. The work feels highly competent and unfussy with no stylised shaping to the barbs or tang. Preparation of the blank must have been good and no significant problems encountered with fine , consistent flint. John Lord in his DVD; 'Making a Bronze Age barbed & tanged arrowhead' takes 20 minutes to make something as fine. A novice might take longer to make something less satisfactory. Bond(2004) on page 125 shows Sutton's classification of barbed and tanged arrowheads and this is'Sutton bh'.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 2000 BC and 1000 BC
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FindID: 463292
Old ref: PUBLIC-8AD152
Filename: 386-2.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/348412
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/348412/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/463292

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