Looking for any info on this arrowhead

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I bought this a long time ago. It was advertised as dug in great Britain, bronze arrowhead. I’m not too worried if it’s fake or not I didn’t pay much. Assuming it is real, what can you tell me about it? Looking for things like rough age, maybe there’s a name for the style, anything about the people that made it and so on. I’m working on a catalog of my stuff and I’d like to add a better description than “Celtic arrowhead dug in Great Britain by unknown person”

It’s roughly a couple inches long and it’s way out of my general area of expertise the rest of my arrowheads are the North American stone variety. So any help would be appreciated
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It's unlikely that your bronze arrowhead was actually detected in England, that was and is a popular false selling point used by many shady UK based dealers of material they bought from detectorists in Eastern Europe and the Balkans on the cheap. Artifacts claiming a UK origin always fetch top dollar so one must be careful. Based on my experience I think it's a Black Sea region or lower Danube River basin area early(er) Iron Age bilobate arrowhead of the Cimmerians, Scythians, or adjacent Greek or Celtic/Thracian peoples, however that general style was extremely widespread and popular over a wide area so pinpointing an age and culture may not be possible. Given where those "UK-found" dealers get stuff though it's probably from Bulgaria, Ukraine or Russia and from the 8th-6th centuries BC. Those earlier bilobate pieces are nicer and more substantial than the more common later trilobate arrowheads so it's a nice piece regardless of any dealer deception.

You may find this broad overview and attempt at identifying European and Near Eastern arrowhead styles interesting: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Ancient%20Metal%20Arrowheads
 

Thanks for the info and direction I know I may be a little late but I thought after a while with no takers the thread was dead then forgot about it all together.
 

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