Inspired by Pango's thread i thought i'd show some of my flint tools and arrows that i've found.All of these have been within one mile of my house on ploughed fields.One of my hobbies is metal detecting and fieldwalking which you can do at the same time.I'm always looking out for pottery sherds, fossils, ect..and flints!There are literally thousands of them where i walk but most are undateable flakes.Every now and again i find things like these:
All of these i have chanced upon whilst fieldwalking.
My favorite.A beautiful barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Beaker period in the Bronze age.I had just dug up a cartridge bottom and has i bent down to pick it up i spotted this.Two things, same purpose, seperated by the millennia.Lovely workmanship on it, the pressure flaking is superb.
And now two axes.The left hand one is made from flint with a ground and polished edge.Lovely milky white patination.On the right is a handaxe made from stone that originated from the Great Langdale axe factories in Cumbria(maybe Pike-o-Sickle?who knows..).Both Neolithic.
Thanks for looking and if any of you have any i'd love to see them.
All of these i have chanced upon whilst fieldwalking.
My favorite.A beautiful barbed and tanged arrowhead from the Beaker period in the Bronze age.I had just dug up a cartridge bottom and has i bent down to pick it up i spotted this.Two things, same purpose, seperated by the millennia.Lovely workmanship on it, the pressure flaking is superb.
And now two axes.The left hand one is made from flint with a ground and polished edge.Lovely milky white patination.On the right is a handaxe made from stone that originated from the Great Langdale axe factories in Cumbria(maybe Pike-o-Sickle?who knows..).Both Neolithic.
Thanks for looking and if any of you have any i'd love to see them.