{"id":3827,"date":"2014-09-02T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T19:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2022-06-18T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T13:48:50","slug":"flint-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3827","title":{"rendered":"Flint Tools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered in our Norfolk garden what appears (to me) to be flint tools:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3828 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6246-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"2 flint tools\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6246-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6246-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6246.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>These I unearthed whilst gardening in our vegetable plot. I took a series of photographs to send to my daughter who is a physics teacher and may have contacts who could help verify (or otherwise) whether they are, or not, flint tools.<\/p>\n<p>The photos I took include a set of images around each tool such as this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3831 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6240-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"a view of a single tool\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6240-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6240-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6240.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>A close up of what may be a worked edge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6247.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3829 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6247-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"worked edge?\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6247-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6247-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6247.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a tool in the hand to give scale:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3830 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6251-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"tool in the hand\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6251-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6251-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/E14_6251.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone can advise on this I would appreciate it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have discovered in our Norfolk garden what appears (to me) to be flint tools: These I unearthed whilst gardening in our vegetable plot. I took a series of photographs to send to my daughter who is a physics teacher and may have contacts who could help verify (or otherwise) whether they are, or not, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flint Tools?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,52,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7393,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}