Blade
- Description
- 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.
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/103
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- blade
- Simple Name
- blade
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- flint/chert
- Collection Site Name
- Westward Ho!
- Collection Town
- Westward Ho!
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
