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Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
WOODLAND PERIOD, CIRCA 7900-6900 B.C.
1 1/4 - 3 1/4 in. (125 grams total, 33-84 mm).
Including scrapers and a triangular obsidian arrowhead. [4, No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
LITERATURE:
Cf. similar arrowpoints in Horter, Bennett W., NRCS East Region, Projectile Point identification Guide, Dover, 1997, p.12.
FOOTNOTES:
When the first arrowheads were developed in the Woodland culture, the bow and arrow began to replaced the spear and atlatl in hunting and warfare. The collection comprises a very interesting and old Amos type of arrowhead, This kind of tip was corner notched, with often serrated blade and the tip slightly off-center
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