Scraper
Object
Flint tool
Production date
9600BC-4000BC
Object number
1991.653
Physical Description
Flint, rectangular, one flat side, angled edges on other, grey.
Mesolithic scraper.
Mesolithic scraper.
Object history
Mesolithic scraper. This would have been used for 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)
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: 55mm
Width: mm
Depth: 9mm
Width: mm
Depth: 9mm
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