New Acquisition: a Neolithic Flint Arrowhead

Posted on Apr 13, 2012 in Archaeology, News |

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Bradford on Avon Museum’s collection is very poor in objects from Broughton Gifford, which, as an area in the Bradford Hundred, falls within the the collecting area of the Museum. The chance find of a Neolithic flint arrowhead near Monkton adds not just to the collection of Broughton items, but is also probably a new record of a Neolithic arrowhead in the parish. It was made from a flint flake that was broken off to length, giving the hollow base into which the shaft fitted, then trimmed to give the sharp point.

In the Neolithic Period people were engaged in farming, but there was still scope for old-fashioned hunting and gathering. It would still have been profitable to have gone hunting for deer, boar or even bigger game on the edge of the River Avon floodplain near what would later become Broughton, some 4000 years later.

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