An Arrowhead from Pineham, near Dover

ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES AND SUMMARIES 294 an w pINEHAM, Recently, a leaf-shaped flint arrowhead with just over half of the blade broken in antiquity was brought to the author’s attention and illustrated here (Fig. 1). The arrowhead was recovered from the surface of a ploughed field 626m west of Guston Parish church on a North Downs chalk ridge known for previous prehistoric flint finds. The site lies at an elevation of 115m aod at NGR TR 31608 44642. The original arrowhead length was about 61mm; it now measures 33mm. The dimensions are as follows: maximum width 17mm, maximum thickness 2.97mm. Made from a dark-grey flint with small white fleck inclusions, the arrowhead was formed mostly from pressure flaking and is a type (2c.f). (Green, S.H. 1980). The arrowhead dates to the early-middle Neolithic period between 4500-2500 bc. A number of other utilized flints; scrapers and struck waste lithics were also recovered from the immediate vicinity. Fig. 1 Neolithic flint arrowhead from Pineham. ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTES AND SUMMARIES 295 The author would like to thank Mr Kevin Bousted for reporting his finds and William Laing who produced the illustration. vince burrows Green, S.H., 1980, ‘The Flint Arrowheads of the British Isles’, BAR British Series, p. 71.