Sickle

Single piece sickles date to the later Neolithic. This example was found at the site of Hembury in Devon. They would probably originally have been hafted into a curved wooden handle and used to cut cereal crops. This example has been broken and only fragments remain.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
129/1933/936
Category
Antiquities
Collection Class
Devon archaeology
Collection Area Region
Northern Europe
Collector Excavator
Liddell, Dorothy M
Material
flint
Common Name
sickle
Simple Name
lithic implement
Period Classification
Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)

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sickle; plano-convex knife