Discoidal scraper

[henchy3rd]

Just found another discoidal scraper( very fine knapping)close to where I found one last year.. also my daughter found a micro barbed arrow head in the same place 7 years ago.
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age maybe?

 

[Toddy]

If you contact the local council they'll have details of the archaeology folk in the area.
Your site might be known, or not, but every bit of information adds to the whole widespead picture we build of the past

Fun things to find, they stir up the brain to research and often to practical experimentation too

 

[henchy3rd]

There common finds where I live between Derby & Burton.
I will forward the information to the local group.
I once butchered a squirrel with a found flint as an experiment..I was surprised by how efficient & effective it was.
To think it may off been used around 10,000 years ago or more gave me a tremendous feeling inside with lots off questions surrounding it?

 

[Kepis]

Nice find, could you do some pics showing the thing stood alone rather than being held?

We find worked flint all the time round here, best one i ever found was a scraper in the garden, i was tying back some New Zealand flax and needed to cut the garden twine but didn't have a knife on me, so i looked around, saw a bit of flint, picked it up and bingo, it cut the twine beautifully, upon closer inspection you could see all the tell tale signs of being made by a human hand. I took it to the local museum and they identified it as a Neolithic scraper, approx 6000 years old, i've often wondered if it was lost or discarded, blows your mind to be holding something that old, that was made by another person, a real connection to the past.

My two ultimate ones though were held but not on show at the museum, the curator went out back and came back with a box, inside were a couple of hand axes, one a mere 250k years old, the other 500k

 

[John Fenna]

I have never found a flint tool of any sort - so I envy you - but I have made a fair few of those scrapers! They are surprisingly easy to make - if not they would have been well beyond my skills - so probably made in their millions and there are probably still loads to be found out there Have fun looking
Our little gang of bushcrafters (South Wales Bushcrafters) once hired Carl Lee to give us a weekends knapping instruction, during which we butchered a pig carcase with stone tools ... it was easy work

 

[henchy3rd]

Nice find, could you do some pics showing the thing stood alone rather than being held?

We find worked flint all the time round here, best one i ever found was a scraper in the garden, i was tying back some New Zealand flax and needed to cut the garden twine but didn't have a knife on me, so i looked around, saw a bit of flint, picked it up and bingo, it cut the twine beautifully, upon closer inspection you could see all the tell tale signs of being made by a human hand. I took it to the local museum and they identified it as a Neolithic scraper, approx 6000 years old, i've often wondered if it was lost or discarded, blows your mind to be holding something that old, that was made by another person, a real connection to the past.

My two ultimate ones though were held but not on show at the museum, the curator went out back and came back with a box, inside were a couple of hand axes, one a mere 250k years old, the other 500k

I’m not the best at photos.
Note it is flat on one face & slightly rounded the other,so I think the flat darker side is the outside of the flint nodule.
I wonder if it was for cutting/ slicing or scraping.. I would off thought the latter as the name suggests(discoidal scraper)

 

[Tengu]

Oh, I am jealous now.

i have always wanted to find a flint tool...no luck.

 

[MrEd]

Wow that’s an awesome find, my head spins with the thought of the person that made it and how long it has lain in the ground

 

[henchy3rd]

Oh, I am jealous now.

i have always wanted to find a flint tool...no luck.

I’ve had a keen eye for scanning the ground around me for 35years of metal detecting,searching for old bottle dumps & shards of pottery in farmers fields.
With a little patients & learning what to look out for, you’ll quickly pick it up.

 

[henchy3rd]

Nice find, could you do some pics showing the thing stood alone rather than being held?

We find worked flint all the time round here, best one i ever found was a scraper in the garden, i was tying back some New Zealand flax and needed to cut the garden twine but didn't have a knife on me, so i looked around, saw a bit of flint, picked it up and bingo, it cut the twine beautifully, upon closer inspection you could see all the tell tale signs of being made by a human hand. I took it to the local museum and they identified it as a Neolithic scraper, approx 6000 years old, i've often wondered if it was lost or discarded, blows your mind to be holding something that old, that was made by another person, a real connection to the past.

My two ultimate ones though were held but not on show at the museum, the curator went out back and came back with a box, inside were a couple of hand axes, one a mere 250k years old, the other 500k

I to have always wondered if they were lost or discarded?
Judging by some off the deposits they must of been very busy around the camp fire.

Just noticed this one has what appears to have a side profile of a face.

 

[Erbswurst]

How did they make these flakes?
I recently found a bit rough material and would like to make such a thing to play with it.
Should I hit on the stone or throw it on another or what?

 

[Toddy]

You could look up Flint Knapping, and you might come across Youtube videos.

That said, I don't think anything beats a decent tutor showing you how, and demonstrating why, it works

 

[henchy3rd]

How did they make these flakes?
I recently found a bit rough material and would like to make such a thing to play with it.
Should I hit on the stone or throw it on another or what?

Will Lord on YouTube is Mr prehistoric,He holds courses & can read stones like a book.
Did Some flint knapping with his dad..

 

[MikeLA]

Great find, it’s just amazing we can still find such things and think of the stories behind them.