Barbed and Tanged Flint Arrowhead Replica

A triangular arrowhead with two backward-pointing barbs and a central tang between them for fixing to the arrow shaft. Both faces are covered in neat flake scars and the edges are finely retouched. Barbed and tanged arrowheads are characteristic of the Beaker period in Britain and Ireland, from around 2500 BC, at the very end of the Stone Age and into the Early Bronze Age. They are often found in burials, sometimes alongside archers' wrist guards, and were among the most skilfully made flint ob…

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