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Mr Hamhead M
Mr Hamhead Feb 6, 2011 22:30:29
Replying to Lubin

..and I am far from knowledgeable about bits of flint....but how can they date them just by looking?
We have no idea what happened to that little bit of landscape and the people who moved through it during the 6 to 8 thousand years up and to a group of hairy dirty TV personalities decided to dig it up...I don't even know what my back garden looked like 20 years ago...it's got a standing stone in it now...that will fox the historians in the future!

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Feb 6, 2011 23:44:31
Replying to Mr Hamhead

Mr Hamhead wrote:
..and I am far from knowledgeable about bits of flint....but how can they date them just by looking?
We have no idea what happened to that little bit of landscape and the people who moved through it during the 6 to 8 thousand years up and to a group of hairy dirty TV personalities decided to dig it up...I don't even know what my back garden looked like 20 years ago...it's got a standing stone in it now...that will fox the historians in the future!
I hope you didn't bring it home with you from Bodmin Moor Mr H :D

L Lubin
Lubin Feb 7, 2011 18:37:25
Replying to Mr Hamhead

I sat and chatted to Phill a few years ago, near Woodhenge where he was flint knapping. He made an axe and an arrow head while I was there. Apparently the way they tell the difference by sight is the older flint is darker in colour or so I was told by by a lady who was flint knapping in Plymouth Museum about four years ago. Also the older flints tools from the Mesolithic are a lot smaller.

Lubin