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)
