1884.135.350

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone arrow-head

Long description

Flint leaf-shaped arrow-head with white and light grey patina covering all surfaces, point has broken off. [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 Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Neolithic

Date collected

By 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Thick: max 4 mm, Width: max 17 mm, Length: max 26 mm, Weight 2 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.135.350

Research and responses

John Evans (1866: 240) described a field visit to Solsbury Hill Fort which he undertook with John Lubbock and Francis Galton in 1864. [Dan Hicks 16/08/2013]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solsbury_Hill: Solsbury Hill (in full, Little Solsbury Hill) is a small flat-topped hill above the village of Batheaston in Somerset, England, near the city of Bath. The top of the hill is ringed by the ramparts of an ancient hill fort. People protesting against the building of an A46 bypass road have recently cut a small maze into the hill. Solsbury Hill is a possible location of the Battle of Mount Badon, which was fought between the Britons (under the legendary King Arthur) and the Saxons c. 496, and which was mentioned by the chroniclers Gildas and Nennius. "Solsbury Hill" is also the title of rock musician Peter Gabriel's first solo single in 1977, which reached the 13th and 68th positions on the UK and US record charts respectively. It is sometimes misspelled as "Salisbury Hill", perhaps because of confusion with Salisbury Plain, a more well known plateau in southern England. [AP 21/08/2006]

The Neolithic stone tools from Solsbury Hill [ST 768 679] are recorded on the English Heritage maintained National Monument Record [NMR] under monument no. 203323. The NMR record is available online, see http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=203323. [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