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Of ogival type, with drooping barbs. Finely finished.
Flint barbed and tanged arrowhead, 2500-1750 BCE, from Blaen Cwm Gwarin, Rhondda. Pieces of bone or antler were used to press thin flakes from the edge of a piece of flint.
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Site Name: Blaen Cwm gwarin, Plynlimon Fawr
Notes: found with several other arrowheads, said to have been about a dozen in number, in a small area at the base of blanket peat on the ridge connecting Pen Plynlimon Fawr with Pen Plynlimon Arwystli, south of Cwm-gwarin near the source of the River Wye. One of the arrowheads, of a similar type to this, is under 68.229; the remainder are in private hands.
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