Leaf-shaped arrowhead
- Description
- This leaf-shaped arrowhead was found at the Neolithic site at Hembury in Devon. These arrowheads were used for hunting and warfare and replaced the microliths that were used in the Mesolithic. The fine shape was formed by pressing small flakes of stone off the original flake.
- Accession Loan No.
- 119/1931/151
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- leaf-shaped arrowhead
- Simple Name
- arrowhead
- Full Name
- leaf-shaped arrowhead
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- flint
- Collector / Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Collection Site Name
- Hembury (1931)
- Collection Town
- Payhembury
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
