Blade
This stone blade dates to the Mesolithic period and comes from Westward Ho! in Devon. Blade making was the most common type of stone technology in the Mesolithic. Part of this example has been knocked off, probably to make into a microlith.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/103
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- flint/chert
- Common Name
- blade
- Simple Name
- blade
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
