Blade
This stone blade fragment 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. It had the advantage of producing sharp pieces of flint of consistent sizes and shapes.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/108
- 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)
