An arrowhead or point is the usually sharpened and hardened tip of an arrow, which contributes a majority of the projectile mass and is responsible for impacting and penetrating a target, or sometimes
Chert arrowhead, Late Neolithic (Rhodézien) (3300–2400 BC), current France
Arrowheads made of bone and antler found in Nydam Mose (3rd–5th century)
Ancient Greek bronze leaf-shaped, trefoil and triangular arrowheads
Some arrowheads made of quartz
A bodkin point or bodkin tip is a type of needle-arrowhead, designed to pierce armour, which was used extensively throughout the 1st millennium and first half of the 2nd millennium. In its simplest fo
A bodkin point arrowhead
The skull of a participant in the 1361 Danish invasion of Gotland, with three bodkin points embedded.
Medieval bodkin points from the 1361 Danish invasion of Gotland, displayed in Gotland Museum, Sweden. A couple of the bodkin points have been bent on impact.