Antler
- Description
- This 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 Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and could be used as a digging tool, a hammer for making stone tools, or shaped into needles.
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/2003/12AN
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- antler
- Simple Name
- faunal bone
- Full Name
- antler
- Dimensions
- whole length 500 mm; whole width 260 mm; whole depth 155 mm
- Period Classification
- Mesolithic (10000-4000 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- bone (animal); antler
- 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
