Barbed and tanged arrowhead
This barbed and tanged arrowhead is a characteristic hunting tool of the Bronze Age. Flint was still used for making arrowheads, as metal was a precious material only used for certain types of tools such as axes. This arrowhead was found in Stockland, Devon.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 15/1994/23
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Pearce, Nan
- Material
- flint or chert
- Common Name
- barbed and tanged arrowhead
- Simple Name
- barbed and tanged arrowhead
- Period Classification
- Early Bronze Age (2600-1600 BC)
