Leaf-shaped arrowhead
This leaf-shaped arrowhead was found at the Neolithic site at Hembury in Devon. Arrowheads like this were used for hunting and warfare and replaced the microliths that were used in the previous Mesolithic period. Many would have been broken whilst being used.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 119/1931/279
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- leaf-shaped arrowhead
- Simple Name
- arrowhead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
