Leaf-shaped arrowhead

This Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowhead has been hafted into a modern wooden handle to show how it may originally have been used. Wood survives very poorly on most archaeological sites and so it is very rare to find an arrowhead with its haft intact.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
105/1910
Category
Antiquities
Collection Class
Devon archaeology
Collection Area Region
Northern Europe
Material
flintwood
Common Name
leaf-shaped arrowhead
Simple Name
arrowhead
Period Classification
Neolithic (4000-2200 BC); Modern (1945-)

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leaf-shaped arrowhead