Small Find - Barbed and Tanged Arrowhead

This flint arrowhead was picked up during forest-walk survey number 18, at Wordwell, Suffolk. It is a nice example of the barbed and tanged tradition, associated with the end of the Late Neolithic, and the Early Bronze Age (around 4000 years before present). This type of arrowhead is also often associated with the 'Beaker' assemblage - a group of artifacts including bell beaker pottery, sometimes found in early round barrows. The findspot was located on uplands, and the material of the arrowhead was unlike the rest of the flint collection from field-walk 18. Suggests maybe the arrowhead was not made at that location. Maybe lost while hunting?

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