Flake tool
This stone flake was found during archaeological excavations near Ottery St Mary, Devon. Flakes are the small pieces of stone which were struck from ‘cores’, and used for cutting, or to make other tool types such as scrapers, arrowheads or knives.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 3/2004/2/6
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Wessex Archaeology
- Material
- chert
- Common Name
- flake tool
- Simple Name
- flake
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC); Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
