Making a Neolithic Thorn Flax Hackle @SallyPointer
Making a Neolithic Thorn Flax Hackle  @SallyPointer
Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
In part three of my series on Prehistoric Textile Tools we look at the impressively prickly thorn hackling board.

The original tools being explored are from pile-dwelling sites in the circum-Alpine region and are from a time when flax is an important textile crop but many other fibres are still in use, woolly sheep do not develop until the early Bronze Age.

This video is part of a series made during my MSc dissertation in Experimental Archaeology at Exeter University.

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Making a Neolithic Thorn Flax Hackle

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