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23-09-2011, 03:55 PM
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This flint arrowhead was found at Farplace after heavy rain. I thought folks would like to see it.  
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23-09-2011, 04:03 PM
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I have found about ten bits of worked flint, usually fragments of blades, but nothing as beautiful as that. To hold these things in your hand and think of those who made them. I find it deeply moving, and quite humbling.
It helps to walk over ploughed ground, with an eye peeled for finding spiders.
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Fantastic. I'd love to find one. Thanks for posting it.
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That is one to treasure.Been on the lookout but no success. Well done.
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23-09-2011, 04:31 PM
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My local museum is in Malton (threatened with closure right now, due to loss of premises, but that's another story). One of the cases there catalogues the artifices of a local character of, I think, Victorian times. He started out producing flint arrow heads to show how it was done, then drifted into faking them, and it was all downhill from then on. The most interesting exhibit is a demonstration of his craft:- A beautiful arrow head, every edge and chip perfect, made from a Blue glass bottle!
I would love to have found what you have there, but I would not envy it, context is so important, removed from it's area it is merely a curio, held in a known site and attributed to the right place, it really is a tangible link with the past.
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