File:Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead (FindID 725916).jpg

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Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2015-06-09 11:14:56
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Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead
Description
English: A barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, dating from the Early Bronze Age.

The arrowhead has been made from a secondary flake-small patches of cortex remain-and is sub-triangular, the two notches cut into the bottom edge creating a central tang and two inward-curving barbs. The piece is bifacially worked, the retouch being covering, scaled and low angle. The flint is mid grey with a mottled blue surface in places.

Length: 28.9mm; width: 24.6mm; thickness: 4.5mm. Weight: 2.56g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 2500 BC and 1500 BC
Accession number
FindID: 725916
Old ref: BH-6BC618
Filename: BA_arrowhead_15_21_59.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/520366
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/520366/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/725916
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