Blade
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.
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)
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
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.
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