Leaf-shaped arrowhead
This leaf-shaped arrowhead was found at the Neolithic site at Hembury in Devon. These arrowheads were used for hunting and warfare and replaced the microliths that were used in the Mesolithic. The fine shape was formed by pressing small flakes of stone off the original flake.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 119/1931/356
- 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)