Micro-blade core
This micro-blade core dates to the Neolithic and was found at the site of Hembury in Devon. Micro-blade making was more common in the Mesolithic period, when blades were used to make microliths, but continued in some cases into the Neolithic period. Many Neolithic tools were made from blades.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 139/1935/1675/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Liddell, Dorothy M
- Material
- flint
- Common Name
- micro-blade core
- Simple Name
- core
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC)
- Production Town
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
