Spearhead

Details

• Title

  Spearhead

• Associated people

  Ernest Chantre (1843 - 1924) (field collector)

• Associated place

  Europe › France › Saône-et-Loire › Solutre (place of excavation)

• Date

  Upper Palaeolithic Period (Western Europe) (c. 40,000 - 10,000 BC)

• Material and technique

  flint

• Material index

  inorganic › mineral › silica › flint

• Object type

  component › spear-head

• Dimensions

  6.2 cm (length)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Arthur Evans, from the collection of Sir John Evans, 1927.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1927.6069.e

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