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[CRUSADER]

Shaun7 is visiting tomorrow for a guest hunt. He hasn't been out for over half a year. I didn't want to raid my best option & I wanted to take a punt elsewhere, just incase it was a better option for us. I wanted us to have the best chance tomorrow.
It was another failed crop field & I decided to go deep into the field following the small areas that hadn't grown. Little did I know that this random path would take me over an object that I always hoped to find but thought I wouldn't. SS once gave me a tanged version to fill the gap but the type I found today is 1000 years earlier.
It was less than 10 minutes into my search & I had a Neolithic Arrowhead in my hands. At that point, no pun intended, I knew I could blank from now on! (one of the oldest UK manmade finds possible)
Early Neolithic Lanceolate/sub-triangular flint arrowhead - Circa 4000-3000BC

6 scrappies (not pictured)
Near Blank 17th C Halfpenny Token
4 Lead Tokens
Royal Artillery Capbadge
Tudor Corner Book Mount
Bits...

 

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[steelheadwill]

Love the coloration and workmanship on your point. Great recovery

 

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[GTzer]

Looks perfect amazing find! Thanks for the post & pics.
Keep it up.

 

[detectahead]

That's one sharp looking point! Lol! Beautiful piece Cru!

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Very nice point makes me want to go out and look for them! Good digs too need more relic goodness like that also

 

[IAMZIM]

Very nice point! Agate?

 

[CRUSADER]

Very nice point! Agate?

I don't know much about them, but its a type of flint.

 

[CRUSADER]

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[Charmin]

I always love seeing your metal detector finds, but that arrowhead is just FABULOUS!
WTG, Crusader!

 

[Steve in PA]

Congrats on a rare find for your area. We can easily find 6000 year old stone tools and points over here, but we can't find hammered silver and Roman artifacts and coins!!

 

[CASPER-2]

nice finds as always

 

[landmagnet]

My vote is in. BANNER!

 

[Tnmountains]

If you ever want to take your hunts as far back in time as you can then that is what you hunt. You guys have worked flint for 800,000 years. Hunter gatherers nomads came and went. Pretty cool. Look forward to what they say when you turn it into the museum as far as typology. Nice that you can actually change a habitation sites date. There is a lot of information to be had in that stone tool. Congratulations.

 

[Westfront]

Thats an amazing arrowhead! Big congrats Cru!

 

[Clay Slayer]

I didn't realize that neolithic points were so rare in England until I did a little research. Just curious, is there any documentation of occupation from the Mesolithic period in England?

 

[joesdigs]

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That is one of the coolest things I've seen here yet.. Stunning point detail and find.. Banner all day long.

 

[cntrydncr1]

congrats on the nice arrowhead. I like the capbadge too!

 

[naturegirl]

wow!!! very nice, Banner!

 

[artemis moon]

Absolutely beautiful! Congratulations! I say "Banner" as well!

 

[blugotti1]

wooooo weeeee!!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

I didn't realize that neolithic points were so rare in England until I did a little research. Just curious, is there any documentation of occupation from the Mesolithic period in England?

Early prehistoric man came and went with the various ice ages, although there were small numbers of hunter gathers 800,000 years ago, it was only in the lower part of Britain that was then connected to France.(therefore Bratain had not even formed) They came & went in small numbers, but it wasn't until 4000BC that they began to clear the woods & settle as conditions warmed up. So I guess I should have said, these are the earliest settled & British Made artefacts that you can hope to get. Most of the earliest flints (extremely rare finds) were brought into the country from the South (or Northern France) in less colder/frozen areas.