Blade
This flint bladelet dates to the Neolithic and was found at the site of Hembury in Devon. Blade technology is useful because it can produce many sharp tools of a consistent shape relatively quickly. This example has had chips removed from it to strengthen the edge.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 139/1935/1567
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- blade
- Simple Name
- blade
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
