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Mesolithic Blade

Object

Flint tool

Production date

9600BC-4000BC

Object number

1991.649

Physical Description

Flint ‘leaf-shaped’ blade, tapering, curved, one flat side, angled spine on other, brown. Noted as being worn from use.

Object history

Mesolithic blade. This would have been used like a knife.

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: mm
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