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This is an arrowhead I made!! I mainly used pressure flaking on a flake I had taken off a larger piece.
John showed us how to attach it to the shaft using reindeer tendons to tie it in place, then covering the binding with a glue made out of 1:1 pine resin:beeswax.
My flint knapping photos were taken on a day course with John and Val Lord. They have a website here:
John has also written a book that's very useful as a beginner:
www.flintknapping.co.uk/shop.html
And John's son Will is also an expert in flint knapping and excellent teacher. He also runs courses, and will teach hide working, prehistoric jewellery making, bow-making and so forth as well.
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You can see the way the flake has broken off on this piece in a kind of cone shape, following the shock wave applied to the rock.
That's a hard hammer in John's hand. Those are generally pebbles. Soft hammers are made of bone.
My flint knapping photos were taken on a day course with John and Val Lord. They have a website here:
John has also written a book that's very useful as a beginner:
www.flintknapping.co.uk/shop.html
And John's son Will is also an expert in flint knapping and excellent teacher. He also runs courses, and will teach hide working, prehistoric jewellery making, bow-making and so forth as well.
© Susannah Relf All Rights Reserved
Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited
I made this one today. My arm and hands are still hurting. It still needs some fine working to finish it but this is over all done.
Two legendary daggers of Ice and Embers come swinging into Midnight Order this January 20th, 2024! Each are sold separately, or as a dual pack as shown.
Featuring customizable handles, animated effects inside the blades, a pose HUD that allows for dual wielding with stackable animations, and a reverse grip option!
Please note, the Legendary Pack does NOT include the Artifact pack, and vice versa!
Image taken in a viewer with PBR enabled. Minor color differences are to be expected in viewers without the PBR update.
Check out an inworld demo here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aii%20and%20Ego/104/201/1526
Check out the artefacts in our Lost & Found Digital Museum. This project has seen us work with community groups, NHS staff, young people and individuals across England all of whom were granted access to our stores here in Salisbury and presented with 4 items from our archive. From the selection of 4, each group chose 2 objects to be scanned into the digital museum using state of the art 3d scanning technology.
This Neolithic flint axe was chosen by our participants from the Richmond Fellowship!
The MUSEUM IS NOW OPEN! Follow the link to find out more:
I found a site of historic (maybe ancient) activity in pristine condition. I was exploring a stunning sandstone landscape with walls, benches, ridges and spires when I found this. The bright shards are knapping flakes, the litter left by people flintknapping, or fashioning chunks of agate into arrowheads, spearheads, scrapers and knives. The special charm of this site is that the agate flakes lie in desert crust, a diverse community of mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria and algae that seals desert soils, retaining water and retarding erosion. The crust is easily disturbed and degraded by trampling and it takes decades or centuries to recover. Undisturbed crust indicates that no one has stepped here for a long, long time.
How man flakes can you find? One is either minute or predominantly buried, but all can be seen at higher resolution.
Vibrant crystal and stone daggers !
Featuring customizable handles, a pose HUD that allows for dual wielding with stackable animations, and a reverse grip option!
Please note, the Artifact Fatpack does NOT include the Legendary Pack, and vice versa!
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Check out an inworld demo here: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aii%20and%20Ego/104/201/1526
Found in a Late Neolithic pit in Bulford, Wiltshire this item is rare for the UK and one of the few that has an associated radio-carbon date - 2,950 BC. A worthy entrant into the Museum of the Lost and Found from the second public vote.
Find out more here:
And then... treasure! Or, at least, a relic, in the form of a small but nicely detailed stone point!
From Facebook, as posted on another forum:
"It's that time again! Time to don your pith helmets and fedoras and adventure into the world for a day like you are looking for lost treasure. Dress in your explorer best and have fun!
Talk, act, or dress as you would if you were a classic explorer who is going on an expedition into the unknown, whether it be a safari into darkest Africa, or a visit to temple ruins in South America. Live adventurously on this day!
If you are still unsure about what to do, just think "Talk Like a Pirate Day," but replace "Pirate" with "Adventurer." (Examples: Indiana Jones, Allan Quatermain, Jungle Cruise Skippers, Ramar of the Jungle, Rick O'Connell, Teddy Roosevelt, Nathan Drake, Pitfall harry, Legends of the Hidden Temple, etcetera.)"
I would have added Lara Croft, Jane Goodall, Mary Leakey, and Adèle Blanc-Sec to that list, in the interests of both gender diversity and full-on adventurely awesomeness, but hey, the impetus for the day came from Disney fans, and in my experience, despite their claims to progressivism and diversity, the Disney machine is, above all else, devoted to promoting and maintaining a sanitized and profitable version of the status quo, gender equality be d&mned.
(You think I'm making this up? Look at the film Mary Poppins. What does the suffragette mother do at the end of the movie? She donates her 'Votes for Women' banner to be the tail for a kite. She gives up her cause to go back to being a housewife, and symbolically tells the suffrage movement to 'go fly a kite.')
But I digress. Here, in a series of five images, is my contribution to helping make Lost Adventure Day a more widely recognized pseudo-holiday.
Our loan boxes contain interesting artefacts and items that are available to schools and for educational purposes in order to stimulate interest in archaeology and heritage.
I found this arrow head behind the house today!
While native toolmaking sites are fairly common around this area, identifiable by scattered chips of chert or flint on the ground, complete or semi-complete points or tools are unusual finds.
The few pieces I have found are either damaged or incomplete. I suspect, based on what I've found, that the point-making process was fairly challenging with a high failure rate, probably resulting from flaws in the stone material.
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Handcrafted by lithic (stone) artifact replication specialist, Jay Valente, this stone knife exemplifies stone-age craftsmanship and utility. Like all of his lithic work, this is a premium high-grade museum quality replica and there was special attention given to historical accuracy and authenticity in its creation. Jay’s work has been featured for sale in the largest Native American museum in the world and both his lithic replicas and his lithic artifact consultation services have been touted by esteemed archaeologists and historical preservation offices alike.
Modeled after Native American stone blades and spear points of the paleo and time periods (about 12,000 to 9,000 years before present), this work utilizes a random flaking pattern and lancolate fluted “clovis” style.
From conception to completion, Jay traces the footsteps and actions of the ancient people. He selected a high quality stone of novaculite and brought it home to be cooked under a wood fire for several days. Unlike other stone knives or stone arrowheads you might find on eBay or Etsy, this is not a mass produced, machine cut or drilled product. It is entirely handcrafted. The raw stone was then flintknapped and pressure flaked with a deer antler and rock hammerstone using traditional primitive techniques and methods. The stone blade was then hafted onto an azalea branch. The novaculite blade is secured to the wooden handle with elk gut cordage and a pine pitch glue recipe.
This knife represents a rare feat of flintknapping skill. Using quality stone and primitive, traditional flintknapping methods he crafted this novaculite stone knife with historical considerations and authenticity of process in mind.
For the discerning collector or primitive technology enthusiast, look no further for a high-grade stone-age replica knife. This historical reproduction makes for a stunning educational or decorative display, however, it is sharp and sturdy enough to be used as well; perhaps as a stone skinning knife, or a stone survival bushcraft knife.
#crafts #paleoindian #arrowheads #knives #spears #ancientknowledge #chert #novaculite #flintknapping ift.tt/2f8E8Oq
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Large flakes came off the middle preform biface. Might make a hardaway point #northcarolina #rhyolite #flintknapping #preform #hardaway #projectilepoint #paleo #paleoindian #paleolithic #experimental archaeology #crafts ift.tt/2i1juVe
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Made a little glass #arrowhead on #bearmountain #newyork.
#flintknapping #crafts #mountain #survival #bushcraft ift.tt/2baQObQ
Anasazi? Paiute? Clovis?
Dunno... but "lithic flakes" like this, and the occasional scraper tool, are scattered all over the hillsides in many places in southern Utah. All of these examples are from within a few yards of my back porch. I have yet to find a well-formed "arrowhead" or projective point.
Flint is a hard sedimentary rock, occurring naturally in nodules and masses within softer sedimentary rocks such as limestones and chalks, where it is probably formed by geologic compression. Flint was used in the manufacture of tools and weapons during the Stone Age, as it splits readily into thin, sharp splinters called flakes or blades (depending on the shape) when struck by another hard object (such as a “hammerstone” made of another material). This process is referred to as knapping. Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, and similar types of stone through the process of “lithic reduction” –
a technical term for the controlled fracturing of the stone, followed by the careful, systematic removal of excess material to create a desired form and provide it with one or more cutting edges.
The specific characteristics of each piece of flint help determine what objects can be produced from it, so to a certain degree the stone itself dictates the precise form each object made from it will take. Methods of working flint and similar stones for making weapons and tools are among the earliest technologies developed by prehistoric humans. Flintknapping was probably among the earliest specialized work activities, as it requires a high level of skill and training.
Flintknapping involves the use of specialized handmade tools, as well as considerable expertise. Early knappers could have used simple hammers made of stone, wood or bone to shape flint objects. The first stage of flintknapping usually involves hard hammering with another type of hard stone to split the flint nodule into smaller flakes and blades. Each of these pieces can then be worked with more precise soft hammering techniques to shape the object’s overall form. Finally, blade edges can be sharpened or serrated through carefully controlled pressure flaking using wood or antler points.
As a valuable resource, flint was traded from its sources to other areas lacking this material. The importance of achieving form and balance in a finished blade or projectile point may have taught prehistoric humans to value characteristics such as symmetry, or even the aesthetic pleasure -- as well as the functional value -- of a curvilinear forms.
This flint knife was created by expert flintknapper Harold Elam. The tapered blade is made of material from the Flint Ridge deposits in southern Ohio. It has been attached with sinew to a handle fashioned from deer antler. While this example is not intended as a copy of any specific ancient prototype, in form and materials it is similar to Paleo-Indian knives produced by the Hopewell Culture during the early First Millennium.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this material.
This beautiful little late Neolithic/ early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead was excavated recently from the Bath Abbey Footprint Project site.
This beautiful little late Neolithic/ early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead was excavated recently from the Bath Abbey Footprint Project site.
Caleb Overstreet, Operation Arrow staff member, shows an obsidian piece he made while staffing the flintknapping exhibit in the OA Indian Village at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree (Photo by Greg Crenshaw)
Anasazi? Paiute? Clovis?
Dunno... but "lithic flakes" like this, and the occasional scraper tool, are scattered all over the hillsides in many places in southern Utah. All of these examples are from within a few yards of my back porch. I have yet to find a well-formed "arrowhead" or projective point.
Not sure if this is a termination of a vent. Maybe an incense burner at it's base.
I now suspect it is a vent for the Organ pump as the organ is located on this South wall adjacent to this spot.
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I found this ancient stone arrow point alongside the driveway at my house a couple of days ago! I glanced down, saw the shiny stone, noticed the notch, looked closer, noticed the telltale "fish-like" shape! This is the first complete projectile point I have found in the six years I've lived here. Cool!
Anasazi? Paiute? Clovis?
Dunno... but "lithic flakes" like this, and the occasional scraper tool, are scattered all over the hillsides in many places in southern Utah. All of these examples are from within a few yards of my back porch. I have yet to find a well-formed "arrowhead" or projective point.
Suddenly, the lark... or LARP... becomes a genuine archaeological expedition with the discovery of
scattered debitage, the remnants of a paleolithic tool-making site.
From Facebook, as posted on another forum:
"It's that time again! Time to don your pith helmets and fedoras and adventure into the world for a day like you are looking for lost treasure. Dress in your explorer best and have fun!
Talk, act, or dress as you would if you were a classic explorer who is going on an expedition into the unknown, whether it be a safari into darkest Africa, or a visit to temple ruins in South America. Live adventurously on this day!
If you are still unsure about what to do, just think "Talk Like a Pirate Day," but replace "Pirate" with "Adventurer." (Examples: Indiana Jones, Allan Quatermain, Jungle Cruise Skippers, Ramar of the Jungle, Rick O'Connell, Teddy Roosevelt, Nathan Drake, Pitfall harry, Legends of the Hidden Temple, etcetera.)"
I would have added Lara Croft, Jane Goodall, Mary Leakey, and Adèle Blanc-Sec to that list, in the interests of both gender diversity and full-on adventurely awesomeness, but hey, the impetus for the day came from Disney fans, and in my experience, despite their claims to progressivism and diversity, the Disney machine is, above all else, devoted to promoting and maintaining a sanitized and profitable version of the status quo, gender equality be d&mned.
(You think I'm making this up? Look at the film Mary Poppins. What does the suffragette mother do at the end of the movie? She donates her 'Votes for Women' banner to be the tail for a kite. She gives up her cause to go back to being a housewife, and symbolically tells the suffrage movement to 'go fly a kite.')
But I digress. Here, in a series of five images, is my contribution to helping make Lost Adventure Day a more widely recognized pseudo-holiday.
This beautiful little late Neolithic/ early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead was excavated recently from the Bath Abbey Footprint Project site.
Wlderness survival and nature awareness build self confidence and develop a deep sense of belonging and connectedness in the natural world. Our goal is to reconnect people to ancient technologies and back to themselves. We teach primitive skills, survival skills, wilderness survival, modern survival, bushcraft, native awareness, wildlife tracking, earth living, shelter building, water collection & disinfection, friction fire making, bow making, flintknapping, wild edibles, hide tanning, scout skills, primitive hunting, earth philosophy, drum making, survival trapping, and more. Come to a class! You will connect with people on a new level and reconnect with wilderness survival skills that your ancestors practiced.
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This stuff is so hard to flake, it’s so low quality, it’s also incredibly difficult to acquire and rare to find in creeks. I wish I knew someone who had an outcropping on their land. I have some kind of obesssion with #normanskill #chert. I think it might just be a magic stone. #paleo #paleoindians #flintknapping #ancientways #forgottenknowledge #crafts ift.tt/2inREUI
Flintknapping is an old industry in the Brandon area. Flint is often used on buildings in the area, especially on 'character' and town centre properties.
Phil Harding knaps flint during one of the Practical Archaeology Courses held at Down Farm, Cranborne Chase.
I found this ancient stone tool on the ground where I park my car. Opened the car door, looked down, saw a pretty rock, picked it up, saw indications of pressure flaking, and realized it was a stone cutting tool. Cool!
Caleb Overstreet, Operation Arrow staff member teaches flintknapping on Garden Ground Mountain in the Indian Village at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree (Photo by Greg Crenshaw)
North entrance and vestibule. I think the buttress is a later addition, maybe 15th Century.
St Mary the Virgin is the Parish Church of East Preston and Kingston and is located at the parish boundary of East Preston with Rustington, on the corner of Vicarage Lane and Station Road.
Diocesan ID: AA1011
Built: 1150
Style of worship: Modern Catholic
I broke my own rule on this and some other shots and got too close thereby getting converging verticals. Unfortunately in every direction there were obstructions to the view. I can't really complain, in most cases the obstructions were fine and healthy trees.
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NPS / Emily Hassell
Any projectile points or other cultural items found while exploring inside the park should be left undisturbed. Please do not touch, displace, or remove these items from the park. Leaving modern objects, personal art, or any other non-natural items at cultural sites, or anywhere in the park, is also prohibited. If you wish to report your finding to a park ranger, please do not attempt to relocate the item - leave it where it was found without touching it, and verbally discuss the location with a park ranger.
Alt text: Park staff members learning to flintknap by chipping at obsidian rock using natural and man-made tools.
Both stones are hard hammers that have flat faces, show signs of great wear, and are likely made of quartzite. Held in the hand, they would have been used in a process known as "flintknapping," wherein the hammer stone strikes a second flint, quartzite, or chert stone, chipping pieces off until the secondary stone takes a more desirable shape. Hammer stones were also used in the process of bifacial reduction, where the secondary stone would be split along a significant portion of its face, creating two useful stones from one.
18) 4" X 3 3/4" X 2 1/2"
19) 3 1/4" X 2 1/4" X 2 1/4"
Likely donated by Professor George E. Woodbine (d.1953) of Yale University
ACC# 80.240.18 & 19
See other indigenous peoples tools, utensils and weapons at flic.kr/s/aHskTPFNZd.
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)