Transverse arrowhead
This Neolithic arrowhead has been hafted into a modern wooden handle to show how it may have looked when it was first made and 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.
- 106/1910
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- flintwood
- Common Name
- transverse arrowhead
- Simple Name
- arrowhead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC); Modern (1945-)
