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Flint finds from Weststow Suffolk
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Small finds - flint finds from Weststow, Suffolk
Another drawing of sample worked flint finds - these were from West Stow in Suffolk. The in the top left corner from compartment Kings 4036 are both 'button scrapers' - often associated with the so-called Beaker culture around 4,000 to 4,500 years ago. In the top right hand corner, a finely worked micro-blade, possibly pre-Neolithic, maybe even 8,000 years old or more?
Bottom left hand corner, typical little flint scraper, probably late prehistoric. Two more scrapers to its right finish this page. Scrapers are very difficult to date. With a few exceptions like the button scrapers, they are rarely formal, and can vary from nice worked over round examples, to incredibly rough informal forms. I have even seen a thermal flake utilised.
Rough, poor workmanship is often associated with very late prehistory. as metals (first copper, gold, silver and bronze - later iron) came into common use, flint was not quickly discarded. A few basic flint tools were probably still commonly used into historic times. Rough poor quality knapping has been found at some East Anglian Iron Age sites.
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