Stone Age Tool Pictures

Or lithics as we fancy people call em' :) I find these stone age tools all over the place locally, there are literally hundreds lying around the fields to be picked up.

How to Find Stone Age Tools

You need a flinty area, and a keen eye to find stone age tools, a wet day helps as the markings on the flints show up much better in the rain, making the tools easier to spot. Look for flat, shiny, flints. Pick these up and look for signs that the flint had been worked. The best way to identify a stone age tool is to look for the 'bulb of percussion'. (see how it rises up in the pic below, this is the point where the stone age tool was struck)

Here are some of the best tools I've found...

The picture below shows a notch scraper, this was used as the name suggests, to scrape notches in pieces of wood. I have actually used this tool myself to scrape a notch in a stick, and it worked like a dream!

These are also notch scrapers, I think....

This is a rather beautiful flint arrowhead, it is unusual to find one still with barbs in the place where I found this one as they seem to get broken off by the farmer ploughing the field.

I'll be adding more stone age tool pictures to this page as I sort and photograph them.