NEOLITHIC LITHIC IMPLEMENT

-2900

Flint chisel arrowhead that is shaped like a miniature flanged axe in plan and is lozenge-shaped in profile and in section. The arrowhead has been unimarginally retouched on both the right and left edges of the dorsal face, after having been cut away or waisted at both these edges. The arrowhead was waisted in this way for hafting and the proximal end is broken at the bulb of percussion on the ventral face, where it would have been tied to an arrow shaft. The distal end has also been worked on the dorsal face to create an oblique curved piercing edge.The flint is mottled light to dark grey in colour and is probably made from a local beach pebble. The length to breadth ratio is about 4:3.Bond (2004) illustrates chisel arrrowheads on page 53, Fig.5.11, No.F21, and page 124, Fig.5.108, No.d, which are both dated to the Late Neolithic.