Graver
Object
Flint tool
Production date
9600BC-4000BC
Object number
1991.644
Physical Description
Flint, irregular, flat on one side, angled edges on other, orange, grey and brown.
Object history
Mesolithic engraver, used for carving wood and bone, like a chisel. Could have been used to make fishing points or needles out of bones and antler.
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)
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)
Dimension
Length: 62mm
Width: 20mm
Depth: 7mm
Width: 20mm
Depth: 7mm
Exhibition Label
From ‘Hackney 300,000 BC: Meet the Neanderthal neighbours and curious creatures of the borough's Old Stone Age’
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.
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