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Mesolithic Scraper

Object

Flint tool

Production date

9600BC-4000BC

Object number

1991.642

Physical Description

Flint, triangular, flat on one side, angled on other, maroon.

Object history

Mesolithic scraper. This would have been used for cleaning animal skins in the process of making leather for clothes, tents and other utilities.

This was part of a Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) assemblage found by Joseph Exhall Greenhill, Principal of Vermont College, Clapton near Hackney Brook. See Transactions of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society. Volume 20. (1961)

Associated Event

Associated Person

Joseph Exhall Greenhill (Archaeologist)

Material

Stone

Dimension

Length: 55mm
Width: 25mm
Depth: 10mm

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