Wow man, I have tried knapping and managed to get lucky with a few points. This on the other hand is really quality work. And learning like you did without the culture for it like here in the states is even more impressive. But, that begs a question, why dont yall have groups who study knapping like the do, and do you guys find arrow heads in the ground also?
Thanks!
I think ultimately it comes down to availability of metal and iceages I think. We are quite far north so a lack of habitation through the last ice age and an early adoption of copper and iron means there aren’t a huge number of artefacts to be found. The lithic technology here just didn’t reach the degree of refinement that it did in American and North Africa.apart from a handful of Bronze Age finds like the Aylesbury archer there is not a lot in the way of nice looking stone tools. It’s almost all flakes and blade core technology, which whilst it is clearly very practical just isn’t as pretty and interesting to most people.
I have found a lot of debitage and a few scrapers and such from a couple of local sites that span upper paleo right through to Bronze Age. Arrowheads are very rare and often very rough, little more than retouched flakes.
I think Jackcrafty made a post a little while back (which is what lead me to find my local sites) to this website
https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/q/Flint+arrowheadThat’ll give you an idea of the kinda stuff we have here.
Of course we have all the history through from the Bronze Age that isn’t present in areas that stuck with stone technology, most people in the U.K. that are interested in old crafts are interested in the post-lithic ages
