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Object

Flint tool

Production date

9600BC - 4000 BC

Object number

1991.630

Physical Description

Flint blade. Flint, rectangular, in curving sides, grey and brown, worked. Parallel-sided mesolithic blade.

Object history

This flint blade would have been used as a knife. Part of an assemblage of Mesolithic tools found by J. Exhall Greenhill, Principal of Vermont College, Clapton near Hackney Brook.

Associated Event

Associated Person

Joseph Exhall Greenhill (Archaeologist)

Dimension

Width: 50mm

Exhibition Label

From ‘Hackney 300,000 BC: Meet the Neanderthal neighbours and curious creatures of the borough's Old Stone Age’

The Hackney Brook


The Hackney Brook is a now covered river that once ran from Stoke Newington Common, past Hackney Downs, to near where Hackney Central railway bridge crosses Mare Street.

In the 1880s a preserved Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) site was found at the brook. This revealed a range of tools and technologies of the time period.

On display?

No