- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone arrow-head
- Long description
- Sub-oval flint arrow-head with white patina covering all surfaces. Covering retouch. [CG [Excav. PR] 10/12/2013]
- Geographical reference
- England West Sussex Worthing Findon Cissbury Ring
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Unknown Archaeological period: Neolithic
- Date collected
- 1875
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: 2013
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked, Process Retouched
- Dimensions
- Thick: max 6 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 52 mm, Weight 6 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.140.1654 PR no.: 41/ 8386
- Research and responses
The wax model of the flint arrow head was not found within the same box. It is possible that it has been moved to another location but was not found during the Excavating Pitt-Rivers project. There is a clear mark where it would have sat in the wadding in the glass-topped box. [CG [Excav. PR] 10/12/2013]
Pitt Rivers excavated at Cissbury hillfort in September 1867, January 1868 and April, June-Sept 1875 [see Bowden, 1991]. Despite the fact some of these objects seem to be dated 21.1.78 and there are a large number of objects in the Green book which match other items dated 21.1.78 [the date the receipt was sent from Bethnal Green] these objects are not listed there [unless they are one of the unmatched items at the bottom of page 56. See also 'Excavations in Cissbury Camp, Sussex; being a report of the Exploration Committee of the Anthropological Institute for the year 1875' JAI vol V p357 1876 [AP]
Search terms: Tool, Archery Weapon, Arrow-head