Flint tools.
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Well they've been lying around for about 6'000 years so another six weeks won't harm them, that's why you should always date archaeologists - they love you more the older you get.
Nice find though, always nice to find stuff that no-ones seen or touched in so long; then your holding it brings you mentally closer. Used to love tree planting after the county tractor had ploughed a hill, we used to find all sorts of stuff, some stone tools and a lot of (hopefully) dud rounds from old firing ranges. (We eventually got rid of all the old mortar rounds kicking around the van floor as we thought we may kill ourselves.)
Pictures would be good as said when you get them back.
Cheers,
GB.
I have the photos on my phone just don't know how to put them onto my laptop.
stick them in an email and send it to yourself from your phone, then check your email from your laptop
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Nice work and lucky you for finding them.
I recently went to Mildenhall museum and their stone tool selection is well worth a look.
I recently went to Mildenhall museum and their stone tool selection is well worth a look.
Been to the air show but never the museum.
I might put that on my list of things to do. Photo's should be up soon.
Wow got r very own tony robbinson' time team ere we cum lol but i love all that' and would love to see the pics wen u get them bk m8 good find
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but i love all that' and would love to see the pics wen u get them bk m8 good find Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk
Sorry about the delay people. Here they are Got them back this afternoon.
Hand blade.
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Scraper.
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Arrow head.
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Got them back this afternoon.Hand blade.
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Scraper.
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Arrow head.
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Did they say that was a scraper ? The one with the concoidal fractures ? It looks more like the piece that the flakes were taken from.
I'm not a litho specialist though.
One of my colleagues knapped me a set of scrapers for me to use on the first deer hide that I 'brain' tanned. Could not get one of them to work well at all, just so blooming awkwardly uncomfortable...tried it in the other hand, and it was a left handed scraper
Not a shred of a doubt about it, and Paul had copied it from a find that was dated to around 5,500bce
The arrowhead's pretty cool isn't it ? so is the little awl shaped blade though.
Thank you for the photos
M
I'm not a litho specialist though.
One of my colleagues knapped me a set of scrapers for me to use on the first deer hide that I 'brain' tanned. Could not get one of them to work well at all, just so blooming awkwardly uncomfortable...tried it in the other hand, and it was a left handed scraper
Not a shred of a doubt about it, and Paul had copied it from a find that was dated to around 5,500bceThe arrowhead's pretty cool
isn't it ? so is the little awl shaped blade though.Thank you for the photos
M
Did they say that was a scraper ? The one with the concoidal fractures ? It looks more like the piece that the flakes were taken from.
I'm not a litho specialist though.
One of my colleagues knapped me a set of scrapers for me to use on the first deer hide that I 'brain' tanned. Could not get one of them to work well at all, just so blooming awkwardly uncomfortable...tried it in the other hand, and it was a left handed scraper
The arrowhead's pretty cool
Thank you for the photos
M
The one with the conchoidal fractures is a cutting blade, it fits in the palm of my hand perfectly. I'm not holding it how it should be held because I wanted to show off all the details on it. I'll try and get a pic up soon of me holding it properly. Sorry about the long wait Toddy.
That's a pretty cool find. It's amazing to think your holding something in your hand that was in someone else's hand 6000 odd years ago.
this is how advanced civilisations will feel when they find our digital torque wrenches and laser levels 6000 years from now:thinkerg:
Also; I hear that knapping your laptop to cut chicken WILL void the warranty! In case our successors make the same mistake when they dig them up; I'm out to the garage to scrape some instructional pictorials into the brickwork!!
this is how advanced civilisations will feel when they find our digital torque wrenches and laser levels 6000 years from now:thinkerg:
Also; I hear that knapping your laptop to cut chicken WILL void the warranty! In case our successors make the same mistake when they dig them up; I'm out to the garage to scrape some instructional pictorials into the brickwork!!
Ah, that makes sense, Atlatlman 
Astonishing just how sharp that flint can be, and how long it lasts sharp too. I found that it kept a sharp edge longer than my knives did, though sharpening a flint blade is a bit of :tapedshut:
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Astonishing just how sharp that flint can be, and how long it lasts sharp too. I found that it kept a sharp edge longer than my knives did, though sharpening a flint blade is a bit of :tapedshut:
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While your there why don't you spit some red ochre around your laptop. Also draw two arrows sticking out of it with charcoal. That will really mess with their heads.
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One of my friends, who is a Viking re-enactor, swears he's going into his grave wearing a Viking helmet, carrying a basket hilted claymore, with a Roman gladius at his hip, with kevlar armour (with the ceramic plates) and a pair of the most comfortable hill walking boots he owns.....and the keys to a cosworth in his other hand.
I think I'll be cremated; they're not getting to dig me up later
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I think I'll be cremated; they're not getting to dig me up later
M
that'll fox em! so long as the keys are to a "Sierra" Cossi; we wouldn't want to send future generations the wrong message.
One of my friends, who is a Viking re-enactor, swears he's going into his grave wearing a Viking helmet, carrying a basket hilted claymore, with a Roman gladius at his hip, with kevlar armour (with the ceramic plates) and a pair of the most comfortable hill walking boots he owns.....and the keys to a cosworth in his other hand.
I think I'll be cremated; they're not getting to dig me up later
M
That had me in stitches.
