Summary

Lump of corroded early barbed arrowheads of iron, from Urquhart Castle, 13th - 17th century

Accession Number

H.HY 34

Other references

Original description

Urquhart Castle. [One of] Collection of relics found during the restoration of the Castle by H.M. Office of Works - see Register for 1923 pp.53-63 and Loan Register 1923. 5-140. PSAS 112, 1982, 465-476. Lump of corroded arrowheads. Some 140 arrowheads all apparently of the same type as no 13, an early barbed arrowhead. The barbed arrowhead, although confined to the chase in the later Middle Ages, was in its earlier stages probably also used as a military weapon. They were found at Dyserth Castle, Flint, a purely military site occupied between the years 1241 and 1263. All the surviving single examples are socketed and represent a wide variety of types and dates but are mostly of military design. SD note, November 1999: Upgraded from PSAS.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1955-06-03

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Seafield Trustees
MacKenzie, Innes and Logan [Melville Street, Edinburgh]

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor
Agent

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