More tools from the Lincolnshire Wolds

[FlintfinderGeneral]

Here are some round-ended scrapers from this area. I suspect they are Neolithic which dominates here, but don't know for certain as microliths from the Mesolithic also turn up. Top right is very carefully worked but hard to capture this in a photo.

[Hal Gorges]

Nice artifacts..bottom ones look like the ones found at Oldewan ..fantastic material 👍👍👍

[FlintfinderGeneral]

Nice artifacts..bottom ones look like the ones found at Oldewan ..fantastic material 👍👍👍

I wish they were!! I've never found anything Paleo yet, not much round here unless you're very lucky....

[Hal Gorges]

I have a feeling you’re very lucky..😊

[utilized flake]

Nice pictures of some fine flint!

[clovisoid]

Nice pieces!

[painshill]

Very nice. As you probably know, the smaller ones are what we usually term 'button' scrapers. Nice to see scraper/knives with cortex left in place to assist in gripping.

[redrocks]

Very nice

[FlintfinderGeneral]

Some more local finds which I am guessing are arrowheads for use against large animals at fairly short range. They would need a pretty powerful bow. I took these pictures a while ago and there is no scale, but the one on the left is 58mm long or nearly 2.5 inches. The third picture shows it on a stick I was carrying when I found it - it slotted on as if made for it. All these were found on field paths or edges just by walking along looking at the ground.

[FlintfinderGeneral]

A pick which might be Neolithic. The pointed end is square in cross-section. The brown marks are where it's been scraped by the plough. This was just lying in a ploughed field a few feet in.

[FlintfinderGeneral]

A Neolithic axe, my best find yet. It was lying half-buried on this public footpath through a wheatfield in June. This field also produced quite a few scrapers and other small tools. I put it back on the ground to take a photo once I realised it wasn't just a stone. The other shadows are my sister's hat and my brother-in-law at left.

[Sunny]

The use of small scrapers was dominant in the Mesolithic and Early Bronze Age. The only way to be sure is to walk the site really slowly (slug spead) and check every tiny fragment for working. That way you will either find microliths (Meso) or small leaf-shaped arrowheads (EBA). You will need to dedicate at least an hour or better 2 hours to prove the theory.
Recently this has produced results for me in volume of microliths recovered or locating EBA sites.

The tiny and very thin arrowheads on EBA sites are difficult to spot unless they are flat and on the surface...so only by checking every fragment of flint will you find one edge-ways on. This one I found last month....prompted to intensively search by the presence of thumb-nail scrapers :-)

[Sunny]

I would like to see the edge profile of your core tool. It isn't an axe or an adze. Two possibilities: 1. a knife, or 2. a mining pick. Both would be Neolithic-EBA......but my money is going to be on a bifacial knife. It is a nice find

[Sunny]

And the proposes arrowheads in the group of three objects are: No1. a perforator (drill if you must) and No2 and No3 are natural; glacial frost shatter