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Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead
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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Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
68.231
Find Information
Site Name: Blaen Cwm gwarin, Plynlimon Fawr
Date: 1967
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.
Measurements
maximum length / mm:29.0
length / mm
width / mm:20.0
maximum thickness / mm:3.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:1.3
length / mm:9.5 (of barb)
length / mm:8.0 (of tang)
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