Flake

Details

• Title

  Flake

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Lincolnshire › North Lincolnshire › Scunthorpe (Flagstaffe Hill) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Mesolithic Period (Britain) (c. 9,600 - c. 4000 cal.BC)

• Material and technique

  flint

• Material index

  inorganic › mineral › silica › flint

• Object type

  production/replication › flake

• Dimensions

  2.5 cm (height)
  1.8 cm (height)
  1.8 cm (width)
  0.8 cm (width)

• No. of items

  3

• Credit line

  Purchased from Mrs A Peake in 1948, from the collection of Mr Arthur Edwin Peake.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1968.1670

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