Flake tool
- Description
- 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.
- Accession Loan No.
- 3/2004/2/5
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- flake tool
- Simple Name
- flake
- Dimensions
- whole length 35 mm; whole width 29 mm; whole TH 8 mm
- Period Classification
- Neolithic (4000-2200 BC); Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- chert
- Collector / Excavator
- Wessex Archaeology
- Collection Site Name
- A30 excavation (Castle Hill)
- Collection Town
- Ottery St Mary
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
