a 5000 year old flint tool i found.

[fishfish]

heres a thumb scraper i found whilst out with the dogs ,it has been dated by the museum to around 3500BC.

i found it in a field next to my home,which isnt that suprising really as we live in the shadow of whitesheet down which has 2 large neolithic camps there.

 

[launditch1]

Nice!Ill bet youre chuffed?!

Now go find an arrowhead!

 

[bmartin1uk]

Very nice. I dream of the day i find a worked axe head

 

[Shewie]

Great find Justin, what you gonna do with it ?

 

[MSkiba]

amazing. I wonder if my mora will last as long?

 

[rancid badger]

Fantastic stuff! I absolutely love this sort of thing.

I've never found anything like that, though I've found a few worked bits and bobs of flint locally.

thanks for sharing

atb

Steve

 

[JonathanD]

What a cracking find.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Nice, now you just need to find a gold horde and your away

 

[_scorpio_]

how can they date it? anyone could have made it at any time if they know how, and the rock would still be the same age...???

 

[launditch1]

Over the millenia flint acquires a patina.Its very subtle on some tools, on others its very visible.It kind of looks like a thin milky wash.Also they often have iron staining from iron minerals in the soil.The first pic shows this clearly.
Amazing thing i reckon...I love Flint tools.Theres probably many more where you found it.
Most of the flint tools ive found have come back from the p.a.s as 'undatable prehistoric'.Some have been pinned down to the Neolithic or the Bronze age.

 

[lannyman8]

looks like it would have been used on hide more than arrow shafts......looks just like some bits i have worken on, you can clearly see the flaker marks from when its been sharpened/re-flaked........

great find, keep on looking mate.......

regards...

chris............................................................................

 

[Barn Owl]

I'd love to be able to find something like that.

 

[v-ness]

Lovely find!
There's just something about touchable history, I love the idea that someone 5000 years ago made and used that tool- simply amazing!

Cheers
Ness

 

[fishfish]

according to the local museum it can be dated due to the style being found allong with datable items in the area.

i shall no doubt give it to the museum at some point,i have donated most of my finds including some roman stuff.

 

[gregorach]

Yeah, dating for this sort of thing is primarily stylistic. Whilst people could have made similar tools at just about any point in history, we know that fashion changes through time.

As for how you originally work out what styles were in use at what time, that's down to careful observation of stratigraphy (how things occur in layers) and finding directly datable material (bone, charcoal, and so forth) in the same layers.

 

[firecrest]

very cool! id love to find a flint tool!