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1884.135.48

Stone arrow-head

1884.135.48

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone arrow-head
Long description
Tanged and barbed arrow-head of light yellowish grey flint. Covering retouch. Tang and one barb broken. [CG [Excav. PR] 19/02/2013]
Geographical reference
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
England North Yorkshire or East Riding of Yorkshire Yorkshire Wolds
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Bronze Age
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
Dimensions
Thick: max 4 mm, Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 26 mm, Weight 1 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.135.48
Research and responses

There are some notes from these Yorkshire sites held with the Pitt Rivers papers (box P12) at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum. Canon Greenwell also published his excavations in 1877. Full reference: Greenwell, W. and Rolleston, G. 1877. British Barrows: A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds in Various Parts of England. Oxford: Claredon Press [CB 8/12/2009]

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