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Re: How to recognise flint tools?
Apr 25, 2015, 11:24
Orifrog wrote:
Probably a very good plan for a beginner like me, having looked fruitlessly in a flint-filled field this afternoon.Plenty of the flints looked like they could have been used as a tool,i.e. they had edges that you could cut or scrape with, but didn't have any signs of having been worked. I shall persevere.


Some pieces which you can identify as flakes would have been used as tools in their unworked state, if they had sharp enough edges and were comfortable to use. But, obviously, it's impossible to know if they were used as tools or are just discarded pieces from the core.
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