Blade
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.
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