Deer antler
This red deer antler dates to the Mesolithic period, over 6,000 years ago, and comes from Westward Ho! in Devon. Antler was an incredibly useful material to the hunter-gatherers and could be used as a digging tool, a hammer for making stone tools, or could be made into needles.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 43/2003/4
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- bone (animal)antler
- Common Name
- deer antler
- Simple Name
- faunal bone
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
