Pick
This flaked flint pick dates to the Mesolithic Period and was found in Devon. It is thought that tools like this were used for digging or gathering plant materials and may have been hafted into a wooden handle or simply used held in the hand.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 102/1934/4
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Stone, FHS, Captain
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- pick
- Simple Name
- pick
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
