Handful of flint to gift

[ScottE]

Have a handful of very good flint I'd like to gift on to someone following a very generous one way trade!!
If anyone would like it or knows someone who'd like it I'll happily post some out....
Appreciate some pictures or video of it in action

 

[Nice65]

I live on top of the stuff. Well, that and chalk, nice offer though.

 

[zornt]

Would love to have some but I live on the wrong side of the pond...

 

[Leshy]

Would love to have some but I live on the wrong side of the pond...

I've sent some in the past , to the US and to Canada and the price of postage was not too bad .
The trade was definitely worth it for both occasions. And the recipients were very happy to have some fine British flint.

If I wasn't so busy at the moment , I'd happily engage in a trade . Hopefully somebody here will do just that with you .

Good luck Z.

 

[woodstock]

We would love some as it is a bit scarce in this part of wales.

 

[ScottE]

We would love some as it is a bit scarce in this part of wales.

No problem, pm me an address and I'll send some across.

 

[keen-edge]

if there's any left I would like a bit please cheers phil.

 

[keen-edge]

cheers buddy

 

[ScottE]

Two half handfuls in the post to woodstock & keen-edge....
All gone now until I get out for a rummage

 

[keen-edge]

Hi the flint came today thank you so much fella very kind of you ATB Phil.

 

[woodstock]

Thanks got the flint today it will be put to work soon enough.

 

[ScottE]

Hi the flint came today thank you so much fella very kind of you ATB Phil.

Thanks got the flint today it will be put to work soon enough.

Great, Royal Mail did us proud.
Appreciate a story or a YouTube vid of some flint and steel fire lighting.

 

[keen-edge]

Not the best video I know but just a thank you to ScottE for the flint he sent me it works a treat cheers bud ATB

 

[ScottE]

Brilliant, well chuffed it's in action, thanks for the video.

 

[keen-edge]

Brilliant, well chuffed it's in action, thanks for the video.

its not the best video but you see the idea lol cheers bud

 

[ScottE]

its not the best video but you see the idea lol cheers bud

Absolutely, hope you get an enjoyable fire started with it.....

 

[Erbswurst]

Some times ago a German Boy Scout leader was looking for flint on the forum Bushcraft Deutschland.

I told him, that 30 years ago I had seen somewhere in Britain this stones every where, but forgot in which area it was.

So where is it???

 

[Stew]

All over - I have stacks round where I am (buckinghamshire)

 

[Leshy]

Wiltshire's geology is basically chalk, flint and in some places clay .
Predominantly flint and chalk .

It's everywhere beneath your feet .

Badgers dig up good lumps .

The tractors do too, and mash them up after the plowing , some really nice chunks on the fields perimeters to be had .
Usually the right size for the altoids tin .

 

[Nice65]

Wiltshire's geology is basically chalk, flint and in some places clay .
Predominantly flint and chalk .

It's everywhere beneath your feet .

Badgers dig up good lumps .

The tractors do too, and mash them up after the plowing , some really nice chunks on the fields perimeters to be had .
Usually the right size for the altoids tin .

Sussex too, we live upon huge deposits of tiny sea creature shells, compressed over time to become chalk. Flint layers are common, I even had a perfect clam fossil of solid black flint, but it got lost somewhere along the way.