Small finds - Flint Flakes - Archaeology
They don't look much, they are not very exciting - but struck flakes of flint constitute the bulk of my finds and recordings in this project. The majority are unmodified, and apparently unused (although microwear studies might show this not to always be the case) - either unwanted waste from knapping, or the 'disposable bic razors and stanley knives' of prehistory. Clearly modified or utilised flakes are also common place - little notches suggesting they were often used for something like stripping bark of of sticks.
As an amateur landscape archaeologist, what has for years amazed me, is their share abundance in the area - in some parts of the forest, you cannot walk without walking over them. That is why that one of the aspirations of this project is to map and calculate those densities.
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