UK Paleolithic Mesolithic Neolithic FLINT TOOLS COLLECTION!!! - with Leon Hills - LEON CREATOR
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- A quick video showing lots of Mesolithic & Neolithic Flint Tools I have found locally, along with a ground Axe Head from Kent, some Namibian Middle Paleolithic notched Arrow Heads & Archaic Native American Indian Arrow Heads that I have bought. A good range of tools with simple Knapping through to more advanced Knapping techniques used. If you like this kind of video, please SUBSCRIBE to see my other videos of archaeology, fossils, minerals etc that I have found or bought over the years!
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Great finds and very well displayed, I now know what to do with mine!
Glad to be of some inspiration! It is so much fun coming across these - if I'm ever bored I nip out for a walk & see if I can add to one of my collections.
Have you found quite a few & are they similar to mine?
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Just found the end of a flint dagger on my local beach here in Denmark. This morning actually:) My first find ever and it is 4000 years old. I am sold. This is interesting.
did you find anything else in the last year since you posted this comment? Ive been finding lots of stone tools in America, would love to look around the nordic region some day, especially for viking axes
only a lot of fossiles. my eye is not adjusted I think. Should you deside to come here I will help you find the right people to talk to:)@@Quantrills.Raiders
Great finds well done enjoyed the video
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Thank you for your kind comment!
Nice collection you have there.
Thank You Sir! It is amazing how fast a collection builds up just collecting a few at a time whenever I go walking to these locations.
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Thanks for showing your fabulous collection. I’ve found a few flints on a hill near me and, having seen your film, I’m pretty confident they are worked. I will keep looking 😃
It is so nice when you find a definite location - it means you can keep going back & find new things regularly. I have lots of locations where I can find all sorts of different things like fossils, minerals, archaeology, natural objects etc - when I get bored of finding similar things I just go to another place & hunt for something else. Check out my other videos if you are interested in other things you can find for free! Thanks for watching my channel - it is Truly appreciated.
Excellent if my video helped you - that was my aim, to get more people interested & out looking! Thanks for watching my channel - it is Truly appreciated.
That’s a lovely collection. I’m very jealous. It’s pretty clear to me though that the American “arrowheads” are modern made. Probably no older that 20 years. Those might be the ones that someone else in the comments below was referring to when he said they were made in India. You often find those for sale in gift shops here in the U.S. I am a flintknapper and collector of Native American artifacts myself and it’s clear as day that they’re modern made. You can tell in part by the shape and the poorer quality of the knapping (they’re made for bulk sale, not for quality) but more so by how sharp and clean all the edges and ridges are - especially in the notches. No time actually spent wearing down in the weather and soil. Sorry to burst your bubble but I imagine you’re the type that would prefer knowing the actual history of what you’ve acquired.
The same goes, I think, for the bigger ones you have just to the right of them
Hi, thanks for your comment! Yes, I would definitely prefer to know. I had been coming to that same conclusion a while back, then I saw some more of the same style flints for sale at a rock & gem show - they were about £1 each so I realised they must be modern & mass produced - I did buy a few more simply because I quite like the shapes of them! Everything I am finding in the UK are simple shapes in comparison & I think I will find it hard to find anything obviously arrow or leaf shaped here. The genuine native American arrow-heads cost a fortune but I have been told that in parts of Africa in caves & similar rock outcrops, hundreds of flint arrowheads are sometimes found at a time - these are often sold individually at more reasonable prices.
It is clearly better to find your own if you can - then you know 100% they are genuine & you won't ever have to wonder about their authenticity!
Check out some of my other collections of metal-detecting finds, fossils etc - I try t keep my eyes open wherever I go walking, so I can bring something home to add to my various collections.
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Nice collection 👍
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Nice collection! I find similar things on a regular basis in the fields round here. It's certainly true that most finds are undramatic and it takes time to learn to spot them. Hundreds of people will walk past a basic stone tool without a second glance but the first person to see a polished or faceted tool will pick it up, hence their relative rarity perhaps.
I think the notched scrapers are for finishing arrows, spears etc rather than for hafting.
If you don't already have Prehistoric Flintwork by Chris Butler, it's a must.
Thanks for your kind comment - I will certainly check out that book! Does it have loads of photos & line drawings to compare finds to? - that is what I could really do with. It always surprises me the number of people who are just out walking & miss all these things - I can understand wanting to look around at the lovely landscape & views, but I do both - I can't help looking at the ground just as much as the scenery! If you don't seek, you probably won't find. Thanks for watching my channel - much appreciated. I have some fossil videos if that is something that also interests you. Love your UA-cam name by the way!!
@@LeonCreatorwithLeonHills It has a lot of line drawings but only a few photos. I imagine the author found (as I have) that flint tools are very hard to photograph and line drawings make the point more clearly. It is the definitive textbook of flint collecting and although it can be hard work and it might not identify everything you find, all the basics are there and IMO you have to have it if you are interested in these things. I don't know of another such book.
I sometimes find fossils and even the odd coin but only have a slight interest.
@@gorblimeyguv Thanks again - I'll add it to my eBay 'to buy' list!! Good luck with you future searching - hope you find a big hoard of them one day!
@@LeonCreatorwithLeonHills You would not use those notches for arrow heads ideally, you would be running a finely flaked edge into the same material..... the scraper notch would be more bulky and structural and you would risk breaking up the arrow head without any control, if these were tie points there would be one notch each side, see my later posts here I think the notch is to finish the edge of the fur skin after the face sides.
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Looking at the notched piece at 2:17, I suspect the 3 to the left of it are early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowheads, especially 1 and 3. If they taper at the base and are pointed at the top then I think that's what they are. They are pretty common where I live, in fact I found two this afternoon. They are simple but effective, the most common type in my area having one side of the leading edge formed from the striking platform, so quite straight, and the other side being the lower curve of the flake, often retouched. Sometimes the base is tapered to fit the arrow shaft by striking off a flake, sometimes it's been struck so as to taper naturally. The point can be unworked or have one or more small additional sharpening strikes, depending on the skill with which the initial flake was struck.
Thank you - that is a really helpful comment. It is useful to try & imagine how they were worked in the first place & how many strikes were needed - it will help me (& others) when we are trying to identify types & sort them into categories. At the moment I just collect whatever I find & keep them together from the locations - one day when I have more time, I will study them all very closely & sort them more thoroughly. Thanks for watching my channel - it is Truly appreciated.
I think the scraper notching is to run the tool along the edge of the skin after scraping the face. Imagine scraping flesh strands across a skin you would have lots of bits hanging off the edge like fray this would have to be removed almost certainly, the notch would simply run down the edge to remove these, I have scrapers that have this notch too high up the tool to be a tie point. Besides as we know neo arrowheads didnt use notching to tie up so doubt they would decide to make this approach to scrapers.
Thank you so much for this comment - it has been really useful & makes so much sense! My problem is that I am into searching for so many interesting things (archaeology, fossils, minerals, animal skulls, seed pods, meteorites etc etc) that I do my best to identify each but I do have to keep revising things as & when I find out new facts. Part of me feels bad for sharing the things that I find because I am not an expert & probably misidentify things from time to time but I also hope that my videos may be useful to other collectors finding similar things. In the meantime, comments like yours, that can add to what I have posted, are brilliant & I am very grateful!!
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The grade of flint looks very high quality compared to the chert tools/artifacts we find in my part of the US. On the archaic era native American artifacts-yes, if archaic era, would not be arrowheads as the bow and arrow did not come to north American until the middle Woodlands era.
Hi, Thanks for your comment. I love finding these & yes, it would be fantastic to find a larger, better knapped, hand axe that was more obvious - but I do like spotting things that other people have walked past without noticing! Are you like me - a searcher/seeker of other things too? I keep my eyes open for other archaeology, fossils, minerals, meteorites, seed pods, animal skulls etc etc etc - it just makes all my walks more interesting & usually means I go home with some sort of souvenir! I have lots of other videos on those sorts of things if you ever fancy looking. Thanks again & for watching my channel - it is truly appreciated.
@@LeonCreatorwithLeonHills yes.. I hunt for all kinds of stuff fossils, old bottles… but nothing like finding a point. Check out my UA-cam channel on the stuff we’re finding up here.:)
@@slapshot1x Wow, you have some nice archaeology there - & nice drumming to Master of Puppets & Nirvana (my favourite band btw)!
Unfortunately the pieces he called archaic points from America are actually commercial points made in India. They are made of jaspers commonly found in India and mass produced . They have zero diagnostic features of North American archaic stone tools . Lots of people end up with those points here in the states from pow wows,flea markets and garage sales . You can find them online for sale from gem dealers for about $5 a piece.
Hi Leon. I am interested in getting better at flint identification and I'm curious to know how to tell the difference between Neolithic flint and Mesolithic flint. Are some characteristics/ tool types more or less prevalent during those time periods?
Hi,
Thanks for your comment.
It can be very hard to tell based on a single tool alone - there are many possibilities to consider. For example, the skill of the individual who made the tool, the time the individual had to make the tool - what if they were in a rush? - They may make a more basic tool even though they are also able to make a more complicated one with more time, also artistic style of individuals etc etc.
In the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) & Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) people were hunting (& eating more meat generally) & gathering - in the Neolithic people began farming animals & eating more grains/cereals. Tools have so many uses & I believe even a tool such as the simplest blade/flake of flint could have been used to cut meat, peel skin for furs, cut string etc for weaving & the list could go on & on - identifying one particular shape of tool & saying it was always used in only one specific way, I think would be foolish.
Although I have collected many flint tools, I confess that I often struggle to identify ages of tools. For me, it is easier to find a location first where tools have been found already & identified by experts, or some archaeological digs have already been done & the period is known. That way I know if I am at a particular location & am finding multiple tools, I have a very strong certainty that they are from the period researched by the experts.
It is also hard to explain without seeing the actual tools or at least photographs of them. If you find a tool, comparing it to images online can really help - sometimes you can even type in the location where you found it & see similar tools found by others - if you are lucky, they may even have had theirs verified by experts.
I hope this has helped a bit - are you actually finding tools yourself?
It is fun when you find a location with multiple tools - makes going for a walk more interesting!
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I've seen people in the usa that collect flint and quartz arrows it seems the native Americans and the clovis culture were on another level of making flint tools stuff in Europe seem to be much cruder.
Hi, A BIG THANK YOU for Subscribing to my little UA-cam channel! Yes, I agree it would be amazing to be able to find flints napped into perfectly shaped arrowheads etc - the really intricate ones are beautiful & you can clearly see the workmanship that has gone into them. I sometimes show people some of the ones that I find & occasionally I see a look of doubt on their faces as to whether they have actually been worked or not - even the ones that I think are really obviously napped! Luckily I have a local museum with a collection from the area where I am finding mine & their flints are exactly like mine - so it serves as some proof if I need to show anyone! It is just a great hobby to go out & be able to find these things while walking & pick up a part of local history. Thanks again for watching - it is Truly appreciated!
I wonder if you have a comment on why these British artifacts are so primitive. Arrowhead variety in the US is at a different level.
Hi, thanks for your comment!
I have often pondered this. I think that often these tools that I am finding in the UK may be made in a hurry for simple purposes - if you literally just need a sharp blade to cut meat, for example, you could simply strike a piece of flint to break it & may instantly have that useful blade that you required.
It is when the tools have more specific purposes ie an arrowhead that needs to be a particular pointed shape for penetration - if you wanted your arrowhead to attach better to a arrow shaft, you could also shape it to have notches that string/tendons could be wrapped around. Tools get more complicated shapes with more complicated uses.
Agreed that lots of the US tools are really beautiful & intricate in comparison & the skills needed to make them were much improved.
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I think the issue is is that there isn't actually a massive difference in the technological abilities, it's a combination of preservation bias and what's displayed in museums.
If you compare a leaf shaped or oblique neolithic arrowhead, they're obviously of a comparable technical mastery to the clovis arrowheads. But if you look at the generic every day stuff (like normal cutlery vs solid silver stuff, or your everyday cereal bowl vs the expensive matched set your grandparents have), I'm pretty sure they'd look relatively similar. That sort of stuff was used every day, made by just your average joe rather than a master knapper.
You're most likely familiar with the really nice artefacts that get put on display in museums, and get posted about online. But that's an incredibly small percentage of a total assemblage. To give you an example, I recently worked on a relatively small site and we had 13 boxes of flint - each box with a weight limit of about 7kg, so about 91kg of flint overall. Out of all of those artefacts, maybe about 40 were nice and maybe 15 artefacts were significant. This included a couple of arrowheads and a pretty nice serrated backed blade. A museum is not going to display anything but maybe a small number of the absolute nicest things. If you looked in a museum archive for the rest of an assemblage from a Clovis site, you're more than likely going to find the same thing.
The other thing with this collection specifically is that it's not going to be representative of the full breadth of tools possible or even used in this area.
Firstly, anything nice is more than likely going to have been already picked up, bc they're noticeable. Secondly, really nice tools, as with today, are looked after with a lot more care than your everyday scraper. If you drop a good quality knife, you're gonna go back and search for it. If you drop a scraper that you took 20 minutes on, it's probably not gonna be worth the effort to look for it. Not that you can't find nice things on the surface, but you're far more likely to find them in a settlement site, or a grave etc. Thirdly, when you have a nice tool, you're gonna put the effort into repairing it rather than just discarding it. You can resharpen a knife, and it will end up looking kinda scraggly eventually. So a surface find like this, even when nice, probably represents something that's worn and not in the best condition aesthetically. Tbh most of these local artefacts look broken and aren't nearly as impressive as how they'd look originally.
Finally some of these look "primitive" bc they genuinely were made by non Homo sapiens species. Hand axes aren't really a technology ustalised by Homo sapiens all that much
@@anniesearle6181 Ok on the technologic level. But I suspect there are several orders of magnitude more projectile points in the US. Every kid had an arrowhead collection.
I hate to be the bringer of bad news but those Native American points you bought are modern reproductions. You can tell by the crushed edges, non-native flint colors, and flaking style along with the shape. If they were authentic they most likely would have been atlatl points or knives. Awesome finds otherwise! I’ve always been intrigued about how differently the ancient Europeans kapped their tools. Then again the most intricate are found in Europe (like the danish daggers)
The arrowheads are modern made in India...
Hi,
Thanks for your comment.
I was told those few more colourful arrowheads were from Africa but even if they are modern & from India, I wasn't ripped off - I think I only paid £1.00 each for them from a Rock & Gem Show!
I thought I was getting a bargain! They are still cool objects in their own right & I can still appreciate the work that must have gone into making them - it probably takes quite a while to produce one. I more just bought them to have something different to contrast the ones that I am finding locally. I guess I just hoped that in certain locations in Africa, they could be found in such large numbers that they can be sold that cheaply. Anyway, thanks for letting me know & for watching my channel - it is Truly appreciated.
Hello Leon me old fossil
I hate to be the bringer of bad news but those Native American points you bought are modern reproductions. You can tell by the crushed edges, non-native flint colors, and flaking style along with the shape. If they were authentic they most likely would have been atlatl points or knives. Awesome finds otherwise! I’ve always been intrigued about how differently the ancient Europeans kapped their tools. Then again the most intricate are found in Europe (like the danish daggers)
I hate to be the bringer of bad news but those Native American points you bought are modern reproductions. You can tell by the crushed edges, non-native flint colors, and flaking style along with the shape. If they were authentic they most likely would have been atlatl points or knives. Awesome finds otherwise! I’ve always been intrigued about how differently the ancient Europeans kapped their tools. Then again the most intricate are found in Europe (like the danish daggers)
I hate to be the bringer of bad news but those Native American points you bought are modern reproductions. You can tell by the crushed edges, non-native flint colors, and flaking style along with the shape. If they were authentic they most likely would have been atlatl points or knives. Awesome finds otherwise! I’ve always been intrigued about how differently the ancient Europeans kapped their tools. Then again the most intricate are found in Europe (like the danish daggers)
Hi, thanks for your comment! Yes, I have since found that out too - they are nice in their own way but not a scratch on finding some real ones out in the field!
I have recently started exploring a new site & am finding some much older flints - when I have got enough together I will do a separate video on them in the future.
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