Leaf-shaped arrowhead
- Description
- This leaf-shaped arrowhead was found at the Neolithic site at Hembury in Devon. Arrowheads were used for hunting and warfare and replaced the microliths that were used in the previous Mesolithic period. This example seems to have been broken whilst being made or used.
- Accession Loan No.
- 129/1933/754
- 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 (1932)
- Collection Town
- Payhembury
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
