Small Finds: Flint Flakes

I took the photo above in 2010 using an old digital camera phone—a Sony Ericsson C510—at Two Mile Bottom, Thetford. I was out running with my old dogs across Thetford Forest when I spotted this flake of flint lying in the sand. I couldn't resist picking it up to take this photograph. It had been struck by a human knapper sometime in late prehistory. I used to see flakes of flint like this lying on the forest soils and sands all the time. After taking the picture, I returned it to the earth.

Two Mile Bottom was the old-school flinters' favourite collecting spot for Mesolithic microliths.