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@arrival-erc.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 4:38 PM

For #FlintFriday, our beautiful newly excavated bladelet from #KentsCavern, the first lithic from the cave in decades - a good sign for things to come!

#Archaeology #Palaeolithic #ERCResearch

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 7:54 AM

Prehistoric tool makers on Wirral had some skills! A saccharoidal quartz river pebble microlith core dating to the Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic c.6,000-3,000 BC.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral

@antiquity.ac.uk Oct 16, 2026, 7:13 AM

#FlintFriday lithic cores from Late Pleistocene Miaodongyingdongnan, China. A total of 3596 lithics have been recovered from the site and their small size in comparison to Early and Middle Pleistocene examples indicates substantial technological shifts.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Several pieces of flint with evidence for flakes being knapped from them.

@johnnythin.bsky.social Oct 16, 2026, 6:24 AM

Some foolish fakery for #FlintFriday from 100 years ago in this Daily Express report on 'Stone-Age flint pictures' found at Brandon by an amateur geologist: "Scientists are completely puzzled by human faces and animal figures which peer out of a series of flints on exhibition at the Psychic Museum…"

Cutting from the Daily Express, Friday October 15, 1926:
"PREHISTORIC FACES FOUND IN FLINT
MEN AND WOMEN LIKE DOLLS.
SHINGLED GIRL.
'LIVED MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO.'
SCIENTISTS are completely puzzled by human faces and animal figures which peer out of a series of flints on exhibition at the Psychic Museum, an adjunct of the Psychie Bookshop run by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Abbey House, Victoria-street. There are forty or fifty of them, none larger than an egg.
They were found by Mr. W.H. Clarke, an amateur geologist, who is an official of the Wandsworth Borough Council, embedded in chalk near Brandon, in Suffolk. All of them were at least forty feet beneath the surface, and they represent the laborious search of years.
These faces, which Mr. Clarke declares to be tens of thousands of years old, stir the imagination. Some have an evil leer, some are crafty, some are sullen, and all, except one with a freakish resemblance to a modern woman in evening dress, have an elemental and primordial coarseness. Yet they are alive with character and personality..."

@mattpope.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:55 AM

A lovely little Clactonian notch, a specialised Lower Palaeolithic tool over 400,000 years old.
At #Archaeotech26 I made one and tried to work wood with it, as I've done a few times before. And, as before, it seemed very ineffective. So what were these tools used for?
#FlintFriday
#FindsFriday
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A flint flake, about 6cm long, with a 2.5cm notch precisely knapped out of its side.

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:31 AM

A very rare for Wirral Lower Palaeolithic Clactonian c.421,000-412,000 BC flint flake backed knife 58.8x38.4mm. Appears to be a left-handed use tool. The large notched flake removal to the left forming a grip. Right side edge has retouch.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral

@johnnythin.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 8:01 AM

For #FlintFriday, an anonymous poem about an arrowhead , published in the Kirkintilloch Herald 100 years ago this week. I don't usually care for verse written in archaic language (even for 1926) but I like the conceit at the end that in some post-apocalyptic future these things might be used again…

From the Kirkintilloch Herald, 29 Sep 1926 (via the British Newspaper Archive):
"Prehistoric Remains.
(A Flint Arrow-head Found on a Hill.)
The same wild hills are round me flung,
And this—the same stern brow,
But where's the hand that fashioned me,
Where is that hunter now?
With him I ranged the oaken wood,
The mountain clough in storm and flood,
When oft my barbs were red with blood—
O, hunter, where art thou?

The deer that loved yon northern hills,
Now looming bare and grey,
The wolf that oft, like lightning flash,
I flew so swift to slay,
The shaft to which he bound me true,
The springy bow of upland yew,
His bare strong arm once backward drew—
O, tell me, where are they?

I wake, and see the flight of time
From ages pale and wan,
The myriads that have come and gone
Since first my race began;
And I, a bit of fashioned stone,
Left on these moorlands, bleak and lone,
Have seen all that these hills have known
Of little human span.

Fling me afar among the ling,
Where I would ever be,
Till this proud Scotland hath returned
To her wild infancy ;
And when the ages long have rolled,
And Time repeats its usage old,
Some young barbarian, strong and bold,
Will head a shaft with me."

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 7:58 AM

Exceptional rare Lower Palaeolithic flint cobble chopper c.400,000 BC 🪨
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral

@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 6:44 PM

Project #FlintFinder is underway. Meanwhile we have documented the first batches of Doggerland lithics through standardised photography. Many more to come! #FlintFriday #FindsFriday

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 7:35 AM

🪨A rare Lower Palaeolithic Clactonian c.421,000-412,000 BC flint flake backed knife 52x36mm. Thought to be made by Homo heidelbergensis. Found on the East coast of England.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic

@kpw1453.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 5:46 AM

Leaf flint arrowheads which were found at Maiden Castle in Dorset. The arrowheads are now part of the collections at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Prehistory #Dorset

@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 8:20 AM

#FlintFinder @rmoudheden.bsky.social featured in the Reuvens fund innovation glossy #FlintFriday

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 7:02 AM

🪨A rather nicely designed Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 flint slightly notched scraper 41x19mm and 12mm thick providing a sturdy grip.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Lithics #Wirral