Mesolithic mutli-purpose tool
Object
Flint tool
Production date
9600BC-4000BC
Object number
1991.651
Physical Description
Flint, tapering, one flat side, angled spine on other, brown.
Object history
A Mesolithic multi-purpose tool. Primarily a knife, its sides have been retouched to form a scraper edge and angle-graver. Middle Stone Age people were skilled at making the most of their flint resources and sometimes produced tools designed to serve more than one purpose.
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)
Material
Stone
Dimension
Length: 75mm
Width: 30mm
Depth: 8mm
Width: 30mm
Depth: 8mm
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.
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