Arrow with a wooden shaft with top and base end bound with vegetable fibre and covered with pigment?. Socketed, 4 sided iron arrowhead tapering towards pointed tip. Remains of feather flights. Vegetable fibre is fragmenting and brittle and iron arrowhead is corroded. Notched? end detatched and missing.
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