1884.135.46

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone arrow-head

Long description

Flint arrow-head with tang and barb, one barb appears to have broken off in the past, light grey and orange patina covering all surfaces. [CC [Excav. PR] 26/09/2013]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England Somerset Bath and North East Somerset Batheaston Little Solsbury Hill Fort [Little Salisbury]

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Field

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Bronze Age

Date collected

By 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 4 mm, Width: max 23 mm, Length: max 29 mm, Weight 1 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.135.46

Research and responses

There is some confusion over the location of Little Salisbury. It may refer to Little Salisbury [SU 185 605], a hamlet in the civil parish of Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire [as identified in the Geographic Card Catalogue Entry]. Alternatively in the civil parish of Batheaston there is a hill fort known as Solsbury, which is often misspelt as Salisbury. One other founding collection object [1884.135.350, a leaf shaped flint arrow-head ] was described as being from 'Little Salisbury, Bath'. It is possible that the location in Accession Book VI is misspelt and that this object, like 1884.135.350, is from Solsbury, but this is not certain. [MN 25/06/2009]

Associated publications

John Evans 1866. On a Discovery of Flint Arrowheads and Other Stone Implements at Little Salisbury Hill, near Bath. Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 4: 240-243. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3014291 [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]

Search terms: Tool, Archery Weapon, Arrow-head