Blade
- Description
- 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.
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/108
- 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
