Flint

[stretch3144]

Hi all,
I would like to obtain some flint to try my hand at tool making and fire lighting.
I live in Wiltshire - home of Stonehenge and White Horses, therefore an area inhabited by neolithic man etc and hopefully an easy place to source flint from.
Any advice on how to find flint, what it looks like, where its likely to be found, then please let me know.

Many thanks,

 

[launditch1]

Hi.You shouldnt have problem finding flint where you live.Have a look on ploughed fields,flint nodules should have a hard white outer layer called the cortex,and a black inner which is the flint.Take a hammer and break a few stones open( wear goggles!,oh and gloves).If im right,the flint down your way will range from a black to gray/whitish colour.Ive found loads of the stuff around the avebury area.The sizes of flint nodules can range from marble size to,well,huge!Flint is also very randomly shaped.

 

[Bumpy]

You are looking for something like this:

Hope this helps.

 

[screeching owl]

Flint can often be found at the base of fallen trees.

 

[dinky_doo]

is flint found up here in lancashire ?

 

[smoggy]

It just so happens I'm hoping to be in Newbury and the surrounding area during the Easter weekend.....the Plain and the Henge will be getting visited...and I too will be looking for flint....don't think we have a lot lying around up here in the northeast.....

Smoggy.

 

[British Red]

Walk over the Downs smoggy. I'm sick of the stuff - forever hoiking 15" lumps of it out of my veg beds!

 

[ocean1975]

hi there stretch,i live in the southeast of england and i am surrounded by the stuff .If you want, send me a pm ,could sort you something out???

 

[Eric_Methven]

don't think we have a lot lying around up here in the northeast.....

You'll find plenty if you go to the beach at Marsden, or Sandsend and Whitby.