Flint tool
Microliths are a characteristic flint tool from the mesolithic period (around 12,000-8,000 years ago). These tiny tools were carefully shaped to slot into handles or arrow shafts.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 333/2006/2/2
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- flint | | | |
- Common Name
- flint tool
- Simple Name
- microlith
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
- Production Town
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
