Flint Hunting Scandinavia

[@Jigger2361]

..."Coffees" sent! Nothing like wet lithics to get the blood pressure up and the heart beating. This fabulous channel is so unique I cannot say enough about it 👍

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@Jigger2361 Thank you so much again Douglas, more coffees.. that’s crazy 🤯 really appreciate that buddy. Really glad you enjoy the content so much!

[@apondas399]

I felt the same way you described when I first saw Acheulean hand axe at my university, and at that moment, I fell in love with prehistory.

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@apondas399 Ahh but those handaxes are extra special. I think that’d make anyone even remotely interested in history get into lithics. Maybe! Or perhaps us rock nerds are all a little bit “special” 😁

[@robbertram3310]

I live in the US and I’m an avid point hunter. I found my first Celt last year, and it’s a beauty. 2-7/8” (73mm, roughly) long and a cutting edge of 1” (25mm). Opposite the cutting edge it tapers to a ground point. I’m jealous of you guys in Europe. The oldest tools that we may have an opportunity to find would be 13,000 years BP. They have, however, found a site near San Diego, CA that may date to approximately 116,000 before present. But alas, I’m in SC on the east coast. Love your channel that I just found yesterday. Upload, upload, upload!!!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@robbertram3310 Haha hey man welcome aboard 😁 that Celt sounds epic! My best one is in the intro, found in 2022. Don’t be toooo jealous of me with regards to the dates. The oldest stuff I find is mostly 13,000BP, sometimes 14-15,000 but that’s rare as heck. Over in the UK where I’m from they find seriously old stuff. Up to 1m years 🤯 Now I need to google this site in San Diego!

[@robbertram3310]

@@flintingscandinavia1878 - Cerutti Mastodon Site. I just noticed this, it dates to 131,000 years BP!

[@jonathanallison2247]

That pitted ware point was breathtaking! Wow!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@jonathanallison2247 Thanks Jonathan! Yes I couldn’t believe it, they’re rare to find!

[@Howard-bj1jq]

That is a very fine point! The flint material there is very pretty and good flaking material.

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@Howard-bj1jq Hey again bud! Thanks! Yep I really love the variety of the material types here. It’s especially obvious at the lake where it spans just about all the periods. Some of it’s travelled quite far, from places like Belgium and Germany 👍

[@Pinebedrelics]

Your finds remind me of here in N. Fl....few and far between when looking on the surface.....The pine tree beds plows don't go so deep nowadays....they go wider rows of pine trees. The bed plow used to run dep with narrow rows for pine 🌲 Nice pieces😮

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@Pinebedrelics Hey man thanks for the comment 😁 yeah it was a quiet start to the season here tbh.

[@cabelly27]

Now that's a impressive point but cant get my head around the small flint axes! Great vid my friend keep them rolling on.

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@cabelly27 Hey man, thanks! Yeah some of the little (mini flake) axes probably shouldn’t be called axes but that’s the translation. More like chisels or unretouched, hafted scraping tools. Fun to find all the same.

[@scoutingforkeels]

Excellent video again. Stunning find! Has inspired me to get back out into the fields!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@scoutingforkeels Hey thanks Scout! Glad to give you that motivation 💪

[@danielflintknapping]

Absolutely stunning PWC point Paul 🤩

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@danielflintknapping Cheers Dan! You should make some 😉

[@danielflintknapping]

@@flintingscandinavia1878 I was actually thinking of asking you to DM me some more pictures if you have 😁 I starting to get my blade core techniques more reliable

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@danielflintknapping Oh yeah.. remind me on insta 👍👍👍

[@richardpeterson7420]

Man great video!! Get pretty excited to see youve posted. Keep it up!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@richardpeterson7420 Haha ahh that’s nice to hear! Thanks Richard. I’ll try!

[@davelink1318]

Awesome, I think that might be the first blade arrow head I've seen, have seen them made from flakes over here, still working on getting that core picture too you, going to see if my daughter can help me, very cool arrow head !!!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@davelink1318 Hey thanks Dave! Yeah those PWC arrows made on blades are really interesting. I’ve found a few now but that one was particularly pretty. Look forward to seeing the core. Hopefully your girl can help 😁 scandijord at G mail

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

You can transform some of these things into a nice piece of jewelry!

[@Allen-is8yp]

That's an excellent point. Congrats! They were working some beautiful stone there.

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@Allen-is8yp Thanks Allen, was amazing to see it pop out. There’s not another buzz quite like it 😁

[@garycousino]

Really nice looking material over there

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@garycousino Hey thanks Gary, it’s interesting stuff for sure 👍

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

Seems to me if I found it ,and liked it ,I would take home !

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf Hey thanks for all the many comments Christopher 😂👍 yeah I could make a lot of this stuff into new things but I’d rather just be seen to be doing the right thing if you know what I mean 😁

[@UzumakiBarz]

I AM ENTERTAINED

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@UzumakiBarz hahaha GOOD! 😄 thanks!

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

Seattle!

[@clintonkane7396]

That's excellent man!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@clintonkane7396 Thanks buddy! 😁👍

[@SolutreanSpear]

Loved the little blade core, why don't you take some home? Or do you only take the super special ones?

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@SolutreanSpear Hey 😁 these particular sites are protected so I just film the finds coming out, photograph the best bits and if anything significant shows up I’ll send that media to the pros. That said I’d only take the super special material if I was at a spot where I could collect. Cheers! PS, love the name!

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

I have found 10 thousand years old tools in the N West out side of Seattle?

[@paulfreeman23000]

Sweet and well deserved, looks Gravettian or?

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@paulfreeman23000 Thanks a lot Paul! Looks a bit but it’s definitely Pitted Ware 😁👍

[@robbarker4214]

Yer nice arrow head but why don’t you show us that hammer stone dried out . 😂 .stunning arrow head mate congratulations 👏🏻

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@robbarker4214 Haha thanks mate, I’ll show the hammerstone in the next video! Already filmed that clip this afternoon 😂👍

[@carlchristensen8157]

It is a archaeological Extravaganza out there

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@carlchristensen8157 Yeah, it really is a crazy good area for Stone Age finds! Cheers Carl 👍

[@dawnridgway475]

Are you keeping any finds or putting them all back?

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@dawnridgway475 They all go back on these particular sites Dawn, sadly, but I can take isolated finds if I want to 👍

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

That preistoric bone could have been carved into jewelry!

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

When you are an old man,you might have wished you kept a few treasures!

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

It could hve been turned into a women's gold ring!

[@jorgenfaxholm]

Tell me you didn't return the Kongemose block and the PW arrow......?

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@jorgenfaxholm Rules are rules my friend 😞

[@paulcreuwels-zn9ng]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@paulcreuwels-zn9ng Haha thanks Paul! 😁

[@jakematthewsmissouriarrowh3704]

Is it illegal to keep artifacts where you're at?

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@jakematthewsmissouriarrowh3704 Not exactly, but it’s forbidden to remove finds from protected sites that may have future investigations. If you find a single loose find on a field you can keep it 👍

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@jakematthewsmissouriarrowh3704 … some say that not everyone pays attention to the rules 😅😉

[@jakematthewsmissouriarrowh3704]

@flintingscandinavia1878 I got you. It's pretty much the same where I'm at. We can collect off of private property but not state or federal owned land.

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

By all means, throw em back and foget about em!

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

Wrap in Gold and give to your girlfriend as a neckless!

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

You could give it to your girlfriend!

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

I don't really understand what you're protecting, thousands of years of abandoned preistoric tools like anyone cares so you put them back really it doesn't make any sense to o me!