Flint hunting UK, Leicestershire mesolithic site
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2021
- Join us as we field walk a Leicestershire mesolithic flint site and see what ancient treasures we find! Apologies for the wind noise at times and the last clip somehow. cuts out before I say "Ciao for now, peace and love!"
Nice!
#FieldWalkingFreaks
First: thank you very much!
I am from nearby Hamburg and a collector too!
Tommorow I will enjoy your walkings with alot of time and aglass beer!
Artefacts are the last adventure in this boring timeage!
Regards Martin
Thanks Martin, hope you enjoy watching, and of course your beer 🍻🍻
I'm a flint knapper from near Henley-on-Thames. I do loads of field walking around my area. It's really really difficult as 9/10 surface stones are flint.... needle in a haystack comes to mind. I've still managed to find a couple of broken blades and a blade core with some removals. I recently picked up a really nice limb cast of agatised wood(think it's agate anyway). A very very rare find!! You just never know what you're gonna find.
Sound like Norfolk/Suffolk.... Flint everywhere in fields there but people do find some great stuff!
I love the banter
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it!
Nothing like finding something that has been made and held thousands of years ago.
Great stuff, helps a beginner trying to tell the difference
Nice one, glad it helps! Cheers for your comment 👍🏼👍🏼
Cool - thanks! Here in Surrey we have so much natural flint it is difficult to tell made-made ones apart from naturally occuring. I guess elsewhere in the UK if you find a flint it must have got there by human action.
Pretty much, well... to some extent... you do find "wild" flint too but once you know the tell tale signs of them. being worked you can get your eye in. Need to look for a striking platform and a bulb of percussion (bop) and signs of retouch/pressure flaking on flints to be potential tools. When I last went to Suffolk there was flint every where in fields so would be a needle in a haystack to find anything worked... Tha K's. for. watching!
@@manoftheforest Thanks, that's really useful information. I'm new to this, so am still learning!
I showed lots of pieces to my local museum, and we got it down to 4 possible finds, two probable. One leaf-shaped arrowhead, and a newer blade. The blade has about 6 clear 'notches' on its edge, but on alternate sides (top and bottom) all the way up, which I guess is less likely to happen by chance.
@@surreygoldprospector576 Awesome! I'd love to find an arrowhead, leaf shaped or barbed and tanged! I've found some nice scrapers probably neolithic/early bronze age on a different site near me but the field has gone to grass for 5 years so can't walk it now (was ploughed). Your notched piece sounds interesting, some tools were made serrated like this for either a kind of saw or maybe it's a steak knife!
I have to ask you because im not sure who to ask. Do you know what happened to the guy called "the Blade" who hunts in Southern Europe with his gig Ziggy? I can't find his site anymore. Wanted to see if anyone knew anything about it.
I think you mean a guy in Scandinavia... he is still active on Flint Finds of History on Facebook but don't know why all his vids are gone on UA-cam so not sure im afraid!
Didn’t know u got these in the U.K.
for real?