Slate Spearhead
This slate spearhead dates from the Mesolithic or "Middle Stone Age" (7,000 - 4,000 BC) and was found at O'Briens Bridge, County Clare. Although the earliest evidence for the extensive peopling of Clare dates from a later period, this spearhead shows that Mesolithic Clare was inhabited by groups of hunter-gatherers. These groups of people hunted game, fished and gathered berries and nuts from their local surroundings. They depended on hunting and gathering to supply everything: food, fuel, clothing and shelter.
Ref: 1945:152
Mesolithic
Collection
National
Museum of Ireland, Irish Antiquities Division Collection
Tools
and Equipment Collection
Photograph appears courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland
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