flint arrowhead

MAC GIR-125148

Object type arrowhead

Culture/period

Materials flint

Technique carving

Mint

Production date -4500 / -3300

Seu Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona

Current location MASPG

Archaeological site Camp d'en Galí

Township Vilaür (Alt Empordà)

Dimensions 32 x 24 x 3,7 mm

Description

Honey-coloured flint arrowhead from Camp d'en Galí (Vilaür, Alt Empordà). It is dated in the Middle Neolithic, between 4500 and 3300 BC. The arrowhead, with a toothed edge, barbs and tang, was knapped bifacially with flat retouching on both sides. The construction of the section of the motorway between Girona and Figueres revealed what turned out to be a burial of the "pit grave" type, characteristic of the Middle Neolithic in Catalonia. The structure of the tomb had been lost, but part of the buried individual could be recovered and almost all the offerings that accompanied him. Together with this arrowhead, six more appeared, a flint knife, a small votive axe of serpentine and fragments of ceramics.

Omeka ID 3249