Neolithic and Bronze Age burial sites, Eynsham, Oxfordshire

Neolithic and Bronze Age burial sites, Eynsham, Oxfordshire

Photograph taken June 1995 © Crown copyright. Historic England Archive ref: nmr 15291/21

An aerial view of prehistoric burial sites and other features shown as cropmarks in a field of wheat (left) and barley (right) near Eynsham.

Location

Oxfordshire Eynsham

Period

Prehistoric (to AD42)

Themes

This collection of flints shows the range of stone tools used by people during the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age). It includes an axe (top left); a flint core (top right); end scrapers (middle left); burin (middle centre); blades (middle right); microliths (bottom left) and blades (bottom right). The axeheads were fixed into a wooden handle and used like axes today. The flint core was the raw material from which other tools could be made. Scrapers were used for cleaning animal skins in the process of making leather. Burins were used for carving or engraving wood and bone, like a chisel. Blades were used as knives and microliths were tiny flints that were glued/fixed to wooden shafts to make arrows or spears for hunting.

Stone Age to Iron Age: Part 1 - The Stone Age

Tags

aerial view archaeology crop mark burial neolithic bronze age prehistoric (to ad42) stone age