These are some of my flint tools that I make to sell and for museum displays. I try to make certain tools on request, but this depends on my flint stock and the difficulty of the tool. Most of the the tools I make come from flint blocks extracted from a chalk quarry in Suffolk. The desciption on the left or right of each tool will have a brief description of how they are made, what they were used for and how old a genuine tool would be. Most of these tools can be found in Britain, however there are some cultures/ types of tool that may never have been in use in Britain, these tool will be labelled as non-British. |
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Neolithic - Early Bronze Age axe head: This example is a relatively small axe head, but just as effective as a larger axe. These types of axes could have been polished to create a smoother cutting edge and longer lasting tool. As agriculture was being adopted in Britain, large areas of trees and woodland needed to be cleared for fields and livestock. This type of axe would have been fixed into a wooden handle or 'haft'. These tools are relatively easy to knap, but this depends on the required size of the axe. |
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Bronze Age knives: Fairly simple circular tools with a cutting edge around the perimeter. Bifacially worked (flaked on both faces) to make the knife thinner and easier to use. The tool was fairly multi-purpose, like the handaxe before it. A basic utility that is found all over Britain and Europe. These tools vary in size, but are usually no longer than 9cm and no shorter than 5 cm. |
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Palaeolithic Butted handaxe: Basic, relatively primative tool with two cutting egdes and a cortex butt for easier hand-hold one of the earliest tools in Europe and Britain famously found at sites such as Swanscombe. Bifacially worked apart from the butt. Primarily used to butcher freshly killed animals such as giant elk or mammoth. This type of tool is found all over the world due to its practical usage and can date to about 1.5 million years old. |
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Dagger and knife: Later stages of the stone age when copper was being used on the end of pressure flakers to make better and more precise flakes, this enabled knappers to make thinner and sharper tools. There far less multi-purpose tools in this period, most of the tools are used for only certain jobs. |
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Ovate Handaxes: Lower - Upper palaeolithic. These types of tools are found all over the world as their purpose can range from butchering killed animals to cutting wood. These tools were used for a vast part of our history, far more than any other type of tool. |
