Flint Artefacts from around the world
Neolithic Fishing Weights from France
Neolithic age fishing weights from Seine Maritime, Bardoville, Normandy, France. The stone is reasonably soft and would have been drilled by using a hard stick, sand, water and patience. Linen cords were attached using the hole and would perhaps have been used as fishing net weights. They are also thought to have been used to weigh down lines that would have cultivated shellfish, much like we do today.
Flint Scrapers and Blades from UK
Genuine artefacts from the United Kingdom. Many are in display boxes, and labelled, some are available as hand held specimens. I can provide a free certificate of Authenticity with any item on this website if needed. Please see individual descriptions for more details of origin and age.
Genuine Neolithic age Arrowheads from the Moroccan Sahara Desert, dated to around 4000 BC.
You can get many types of replicas on the market (we sell the Modern knapped Native American bird point jasper ones as well - perfect if you are low on budget and just want something aesthetically pleasing without the fear of breaking it).
The Moroccan Sahara is such a vast area in size, and so many artefacts found that there is no value producing any replicas. More often than not, replicas are made from sites that have the most collectable appeal where finds are rare and not often found or where people are strictly forbidden from collecting there, more specially in the USA. As you will see, these have the genuine original patina that only time in the sands can produce. They are also from well documented sites that stretch right across North Africa. Many exhibit sharply pointed lithics with finely knapped edges, others are jagged and stubby. Each had its own function. Many were for fishing and hunting small birds, others for small animals. Each comes in its own labelled gem box, ready for your collection and for the perfect gift. These are ALL genuine artefacts.
Collector Acheulean tools from the Sahara Desert
Found in the Draa Valley, Tafilalt region, Morocco. Lower Palaeolithic age Acheulean Hand-axe. Beautiful patina and weathering to this piece. Genuine article from Mid-Late Acheulean workmanship.
Collector Lithic tools from France
These are very beautiful Neolithic age axe heads and other tool "rough-outs" from France.
Collector quality artefacts, they come with label and information of their discovery. There is something for everyone in this section.
Homo neanderthalensis artefacts - Mousterian (Levallosian) from Bergerac, Dordogne, France
Mousterian is the name given by Archaeologists to the industry of flint production by the Homo neanderthalensis people. They are predominantly middle Palaeolithic in age, the middle part of the old stone age, so range from 80,000 to 40,000 years old. A rock shelter called Le Moustier in the region is the inspiration for the name. These artefacts are known to be much more smaller and specialised that the more bulkier ones found elsewhere, suggesting Neanderthals were highly intelligent in their tool making and thought carefully when working to maximise the number of tools they could create from a single chert core.
Mousterian is the name given by Archaeologists to the industry of flint production by the Homo neanderthalensis people. They are predominantly middle Palaeolithic in age, the middle part of the old stone age, so range from 80,000 to 40,000 years old. A rock shelter called Le Moustier in the region is the inspiration for the name. These artefacts are known to be much more smaller and specialised that the more bulkier ones found elsewhere, suggesting Neanderthals were highly intelligent in their tool making and thought carefully when working to maximise the number of tools they could create from a single chert core.
