I found an arrowhead a couple of weeks ago....this is as good as I can find and then it is only one or two a year for me. This one is likely late Mesolithic; hence the crude manufacture. I love it when flint is so thin that it is translucent; shows the skill of the knapper. Sorry that the pictures are on their side....not sure why as the originals are upright ?!!
So unlike you chaps, I do not get to see lots of beautifully bifacial pressure flaked points (I manage one every couple of years) .... But I do stand a reasonable chance of a Palaeolithic point. So the second of my finds in the last few weeks has been what I think is an Upper Palaeolithic (spear) point. After being struck from the core the large flake was subsequently snapped twice (uniformly) from the distal edge, to create the point. Clever people those Neanderthals....they knew their stone
So unlike you chaps, I do not get to see lots of beautifully bifacial pressure flaked points (I manage one every couple of years) .... But I do stand a reasonable chance of a Palaeolithic point. So the second of my finds in the last few weeks has been what I think is an Upper Palaeolithic (spear) point. After being struck from the core the large flake was subsequently snapped twice (uniformly) from the distal edge, to create the point. Clever people those Neanderthals....they knew their stone
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