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Object

Flint tool

Production date

9600BC-4000BC

Object number

1991.665

Physical Description

Flint, rectangular, one pointed end, one flat side, angled edges on other, brown and cream.

Mesolithic blade. Part of an assemblage of Mesolithic tools found by J. Exhall Greenhill, Principal of Vermont College, Clapton near Hackney Brook.

Object history

This flint blade would have been used as 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)

Dimension

Length: 55mm
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’

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