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07 Jan 2026

Among the oldest discoveries they made was an Early Neolithic, leaf-shaped arrowhead. Carefully shaped from flint around 6,000 years ago, each individual knapping mark, the ancient process used to shape and sharpen stone, is still clearly visible along its keen edges. Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries' curator of archaeology is shown here with the find.

ELOR archive: Among the oldest discoveries they made was an Early Neolithic, leaf-shaped arrowhead. Carefully shaped from flint around 6,000 years ago, each individual knapping mark, the ancient process used to shape and sharpen stone, is still clearly visible along its keen edges. Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries' curator of archaeology is shown here with the find.
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