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Early Bronze Age flint barbed and tanged arrowhead
Of light honey coloured flint with oblique barbs, slightly concave tang and serrated straight edges
LI7.3c
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
38.37/17
Find Information
Site Name: Breach Farm, Llanblethian
Grid Reference: SS 969 738
Collection Method: excavation
Notes: From the central burial pit of a kerbed round barrow, 250m north-west of the farm. A tanged copper alloy chisel and a small copper alloy knife in the final stages of disintegration could be seen in outline but could not be preserved.
Acquisition
Donation, 17/1/1938
Measurements
maximum length / mm:28.0
length / mm
maximum width / mm:21.5
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:2.5
thickness / mm
weight / g:1.1
length / mm:6.0 (of barb)
length / mm:5.0 (of tang)
Material
flint
Location
St Fagans Life Is gallery : Prehistoric and Roman Death
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