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[Greg]

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[TeeDee]

I'm also on the lookout and happy to offer the same terms as Greg if someone comes up with a large amount.

 

[Tengu]

What size of flint, what amont?

would chert do? (Brown rather than grey)

 

[Broch]

If you visit Hughenden Manor (National Trust) in Buckinghamshire and walk around the gardens you'll see flint piled up as rubbish from the gardening; not sure how good the quality is and, of course, we can't get there just at the moment

 

[lostplanet]

Teedee and greg what kind if sizes are you looking for?

I've got tonnes local, next time i'm out ill grab some bits, weigh them and take some pics.

 

[TeeDee]

Teedee and greg what kind if sizes are you looking for?

I've got tonnes local, next time i'm out ill grab some bits, weigh them and take some pics.

I'm after a mixture of sizes really. Not sure where you are based but be great to work something out.

Just want to knapp some pieces for Axe heads and knife and the break offs I can use for Arrow heads. Many Thanks.

 

[Greg]

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[Silverclaws2]

I could go to the Norfolk Coast or Salisbury Plain and get loads too but alas we are in a Lockdown due to Covid and living in West Wales it's pretty impossible at the moment... But thanks for the idea

I understand the problem to here offer a possible solution, why not check out the geology of the region in which you live, to see if there is any flint or chert bearing sites in your own locale. For sure your local council website will have a geology section to consult. If you identify a possible site you might have to dig or find a watercourse that has dug to reveal but how far removed is that from what folk in the ancient past had to do, as something I was watching last night on U tube about some famous flint bearing ridge in the US revealed the natives had to dig for it as modern do folk with pneumatic backhoe chippers.


But to explain my interest and why I was watching what I was last night, I too have an interest in finding 'hard rock' from which to scrape metal to create sparks and beyond, the knapping, to through observing local geology surveys and observation, know flint nodules wash up on my local beach from time to time (and volcanic glass after storms). Something which I rather soonish intend to observe in earnest as I too have an interest in the 'primitive'

But beyond that, how far are you away from 'flint' shire in NE Wales?

 

[Toddy]

I have no idea where to find this now, but the Victorians and their determined industrialisation mapped every mineral resouce in the country, from volcanic vents of sulphur to coal, from copper to clay, from flint (much used after conversion to lime) to sandstone.

Find the old country mineral maps and have a wander

 

[Broch]

Have a browse through these:

Onshore mineral resource maps | Planning | MineralsUK (bgs.ac.uk)

 

[Broch]

But beyond that, how far are you away from 'flint' shire in NE Wales?

Unfortunately, Flint and Flintshire have nothing to do with the mineral flint as far as I'm aware - happy to be proven wrong

 

[John Fenna]

Next time I see you I will bring you a chunk mate - I have not used much over the past year!

 

[Greg]

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[Toddy]

...that 'of note' generally meant that the best quality available for industry, not that the vein didn't come ashore somewhere nearby. Sea levels rise and fall, I'd definitely be up for a look at any nearby beach.
Scotland has very little flint, but we still find pebbles of it washed ashore on the west coast from just such a sunken peat/forest layer off Northern Ireland.

 

[Broch]

The missus (a geologist) tells me that you could be lucky enough to find flint anywhere on the west coast because the ice melt may have brought it from Ireland

 

[punkrockcaveman]

I've found a good bit on the beaches of Yorkshire before, nothing of great quality (from my limited experience) a lot of it was very brittle.

 

[Greg]

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[Toddy]

A first year Uni trip to the Yorkshire coast was full of students of both Archaeology and Geology.
We added three tons to the luggage on the bus coming home .....we just couldn't believe the amount of flint nodules just popping out of the glacial debris onto the shore. It was like manna