Hunting for Flint Stone
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2022
- I Went Flint Hunting.
Getting good flint for making tools can be a challenge but this is what happened on this adventure.
If you fancy learning how to make some tools from flint stones check out the course dates on my website www.will-lord.co.uk
Whoa! There's enough material for every knapper in the UK to last a thousand lifetimes in that mountain of flint! Amazing!
I'm salivating. I can't believe you get that beautiful English flint for just the cost of your own sweat! Enjoy good sir!
That quick photo of the flint rock surrounded by the long flakes !
Wow, must be nice to just drive to a local gravel pit and load a truck bed with good workable flint!! I have to drive hundreds of miles one way to the nearest available good flint I know of. Then I have to hike the mountain, in Wyoming, for a few miles to get to an area (on private property) that has some ancient flint quarries (that nobody knows about except me) and look for the good to exceptional pieces of chert on the surface that has not been completely fractured ( you have to be a flintknapper to know what to look for in terms of quality for working the material) throughout. Then I fill a duffle bag to about 80- 90 lbs. and hike back up the mountain to my truck and drive several hundred miles back home.
I am so envious!!! I have been a flintknapper for almost 40 years. Love your work and your channel, Will! Gu-day!
Thank you so much for this video it helps a lot.
i have an acheulian hand axe made by your dad out of that very same colour material...treasured object.
Man it must be nice to live some where u got Flint that's amazing where I live in North Carolina we don't have Flint native to here keep the visitors coming I keep watching send me a chunk of that lol have a nice day are night which ever one it is see in the vids
There is a place in central Oregon that you would love! It is acres and acres and acres of obsidian just laying on the ground. From boulders to small pieces.
And it’s illegal to harvest unless it’s on private property and the owner gives permission.
@@bnalive5077 I think Peter is talking about Glass Buttes, a piece of federal land where it is legal to collect from without a permit.
I just gathered some mahogany, lace, and snowflake last week. This stuff is gorgeous
Im super lucky that im in a similar position as you, i work at a gravel pit in central texas, so i have the ability to just walk our bullrock pile and just pick pounds and pounds of world class chert!
Ah so thats how you do it ...thanks for this Will.
Thank you for your amazing channel!
I have 2 small thinks to say:
1. Do you know about the Battle at the Tollensetal? It was a bronze age battle, which was very large. Estimates say that over 4000 people could have fought there. The remains of over 140 people have alredy been found. It´s astonishing how much might have happened but was forgotten
2. Your video make me remember a visit to a museum where traps for small animals from the bronze age where shown.
Wow, it’s like a giant sweet shop for someone like yourself 😊
So cool of you not to keep it some secret to just yourself......it says alot about you brother......Matt from West Virgina USA home of the Moundbuilders not their proper name but its what everyone refers to them as Mississippian culture is a more broad term. The Adena Peoples.
New subscriber 🤗 and would love to build my own Earth home. Thinking 🤔 it's my dream
Sum people get all the kudos.👍
Good heavens.man. I wish I had your problem there: a mountain of flint to pick and choose.
Great job will. Can’t wait to have you make some more things and sell the tickets 🎟 so I can get them all this time 🤣🤣🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽. Much love to you from all LAS VEGAS NV. 🤙🏽🤙🏽
Is that Earsham gravels? I was going to suggest it the other day when you said you were finding it hard to find a quarry hitting flint. It is everywhere here. Have you seen Bungay st Mary’s church? All faced with flint. Love your work 👍
that was an amazing haul of flint. I find it funny that the quarry doesn't charge for the flint, here in Australia it is such a rarity we pay through the nose for it, usually about $24/kg or more, that's if you can even get it.
Flint and chert are often unwanted byproducts in aggregate extraction. The flint can't be present in certain industrial applications. Clearly this quarry is happy to have people haul away what is considered a "waste" product by them.
I have to pay through the nose for flint too, here in eastern Canada. Usually $15-20 per kg to have it shipped up from the USA.
@@GeoffSayre it always makes me feel sick when I hear people refer to flint as a waste product or a problem. For those of us that can't get it flint is a precious resource never to be wasted.
@@waveman0 I feel the same way. I save all my flakes to knap as much as possible from the flint I buy
@@GeoffSayre me too mate, even the small chips and flakes, nothing is thrown away or discarded.
Struggling to feel sorry for you Bud........round here the flint wrecks tires, dog paws, digger buckets, plows etc......you blokes got all the gold, diamonds, iron ore, opal etc.........swap you some flint for opal? 🤣 Best wishes from the old country.
i love to find flint in Holland and France .. you can really easily polish this stuff and looks amazing ...
I recommend a brand new invention called gloves. I’ve seen your battered and bloodied hands. I use them when I’m working stones for sculpture. Same thing.
Nice haul !
That is what I imagine heaven looking like
Michigan . U.S.A . WOW!
Thanks for the good video, most people dont know that 10 % of limestone is flint . makes for a good take. What you found is great material. How was the spark test ?
I would love to have access to something like that!!!!
I want a truckload of flint.
Hot damn that's a pile of flint
I wish I could have one of those pieces
Dear Will, I love your programs. I have searched the net for how prehistoric fishing gear was made and found mostly netting. Surely you must be able to shed some more light on this ancient skill. In Pennsylvania I found some notched fishing weights as a kid walking along the river but they must of made other stone tools for fishing? Hope this finds you and yours well.
I will be making some new videos this year Barry I will try to remember you comment and see what I can come up with cheers
Feel sorry for you. Tons of all the free flint you can carry. All you need do is show up and select.
Does this mean you’re going to start selling on your website again?
Thats a gold mine here in NY.
Hi Will , I have a question ,, Can Flint be thrown as like knife trowing , does it has a similar result . I been thinking that apart from spire trowing Flints might have been used as affective trowing devices . Could you test the effects ?
I don’t think so it would probably shatter mate
Hi Will ,, yes if thrown to a tree , but to the belly of a bear ,,, a flint is sharp like a surgical scalpel , it not necessarily need to survive a one time use , its just a thought .@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival
dear God in heaven!! wow!!
No safety glasses and rock flying by his face.
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If you ever get the chance go to møn denmark
Do U K Flint nappers heat treat their rocks?
Not generally no mate
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival OK thanks. I was wondering if that is because the flat is a higher quality there than it is in America?
Those places are also good for fossil hunting. Sadly illegal at most of them.
Is there any way I could order say 50 pounds of English Flint in large knappable nodules and have it shipped to the US?
Not from me sorry bud
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival I understand. Thank you for the response though. If you know of any ody, please let me know. One day I hope to make it to the UK to be able to take a course with you.. Love your videos. When I was in college majoring in anthropology, we referenced videos you made on techniques used.