Oblique arrowhead
Oblique arrowheads, like this example from Baggy Point in Devon, date to the Neolithic period. These tools would probably have been used for hunting or as weapons for warfare, hafted onto a wooden stick and fired with a bow.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 97/1910
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- oblique arrowhead
- Simple Name
- arrowhead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
