I’m not the best at photos.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’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.Oh, I am jealous now.
i have always wanted to find a flint tool...no luck.
I to have always wondered if they were lost or discarded?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
Will Lord on YouTube is Mr prehistoric,He holds courses & can read stones like a book.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?