Farming developed in Britain some 6000 years ago. The advent of agriculture marks the change from the Mesolithic period to the Neolithic, what we now call the 'New Stone Age'.
People began to grow crops and practice animal husbandry. This meant that the landscape changed and people needed new tools to help them. For the first time, people began to live a largely settled rather than nomadic lifestyle.
This flint sickle was found during an archaeological fieldwalking project at Normanton-le-Heath and would have been used for cutting early cereal crops, grasses and other tall plants.
