Barbed and tanged arrowhead
Barbed and tanged arrowheads are a characteristic stone tool made in the early Bronze Age. They are often found in burials with Beaker pottery and copper objects. This example comes from Fernworthy in Devon.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 71/1952
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- flint/chert
- Common Name
- barbed and tanged arrowhead
- Simple Name
- arrowhead
- Period Classification
- Early Bronze Age (2600-1600 BC)
