Flint Hunting Scandinavia

[@davelink1318]

Nice find's, I like that scraper, very cool 😎

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@davelink1318 Hey Dave, thanks 😁 yeah it’s a while since I found one that good! Cheers.

[@richardpeterson7420]

I will have you know im sitting around watching your videos and not getting the things done around my house. Lol. Thanks so much for sharing these extreemly cool finds. I think the footage is a good sencond to taking them home. Keep it up im gona watch!!!!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@richardpeterson7420 hahaha I’m happy to help you with your procrastinating 😂👍 thanks Richard.

[@jorgenfaxholm]

Nice finds, Paul - God day for me too: chasing shortwave contact with the Brazilian island in the mid south Atlantic, Fernando do Noronha. Finally succeeded on both telegraph (CW) and Single Sideband (SSB). To each their own measure of success 🙌 😅

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@jorgenfaxholm Haha thanks mate! Congrats on the connection! 📻

[@paulfreeman23000]

Thanks for identifying great vids and info. Thumbs Up and Peace

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@paulfreeman23000 howdy Paul, thanks as always man ✌️😁

[@wonderbubbles4092]

That stick almost looked like a tally stick or a story stick. Tally sticks were used frequently in trade deals (in North America) to keep track of how much of what was being traded. Story sticks were used for reminding the story teller if what parts are coming up in the tale. Those transverse points were amazing to me. Working small like that takes more than the usual amount of skill and attention

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@wonderbubbles4092 Hey again Bubbles 😁 yeah you’re right it did look like a tally stick to a degree. Never heard of a story stick before but it’s a cool idea. Maybe I should’ve brought it home and tried to preserve it, but the one time I attempted that with old wood it shrank and splintered to pieces.

[@wonderbubbles4092]

@@flintingscandinavia1878 I think you made the right choice. It’s survived this long right where you found it, so that’s the best chance it has to continue. It was amazing to see though.

[@Howard-bj1jq]

Those markings on the arrow-like stick did look man made to me. I believe that yours hard of glass is actually clear quartz. Mineralogically, flint, chert, jasper, chalcedony, and other colors are actually varieties of quartz. They are all SiO2 and the color or clarity is caused by minor impurities.

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@Howard-bj1jq Hey Howard, thanks for h the comment - you’re not the first person to mention the glass blade, but one facet of the dorsal really looked like it was the outer surface of something glass. Smooth, rounded, no ripples. I hope I was correct - I think I was 😅

[@Howard-bj1jq]

@@flintingscandinavia1878 The real intent of my comment was on the various colored material all being the same mineral. I see people using "chert" and not so much "flint." I was taught (for my degree in geology) that they both are the same mineral, except for color. My professor always said "light color is chert and dark color is flint." Quartz is often clear, especially in crystals, and looks like glass when it is clear. I don't know about the glass-like edge that you saw, but I bet on quartz (not glass). But you observed it up close and I did not!

[@Howard-bj1jq]

@@flintingscandinavia1878 FYI - glass has a hardness of about 5.5 on Mohs hardness scale and quartz has a hardness of 7. If you carried a small piece of glass to test the materials, you could probably tell the difference in the field!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@Howard-bj1jq Ahh yes, I’m well aware that there’s a lot of confusion about what is flint and what is chert 😅 in UK collecting circles at least we call the more grainy types of material chert and the glassier stuff flint, rightly or wrongly! 👍

[@wonderbubbles4092]

I have a question about quartz and the fracture coefficient. Flint, chert, jasper, chalcedony and obsidian all break concoidially. Quartz doesn’t, in my experience. Yes, I do attempt knapping occasionally

[@paulcreuwels-zn9ng]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@paulcreuwels-zn9ng right on cue! Haha thanks mate 😄 enjoy.

[@chrisg514]

Had exactly the same shard of glass off a field recently that looked like the perfect Meso microblade......except it was green😄

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@chrisg514 hahaha I wish mine was green too. Then I wouldn’t be second guessing it now 😅😂👍

[@scottlaugher-flintknapping]

Paul flint does come transparent. Very rarely but I've made a point out of a nodule I found. It was completely translucent with no colour at all. The nodule was from a chalk face and had a white cortex on it. It was a true flint but like glass. Very unusual. I reckon that blade was good.

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@scottlaugher-flintknapping Argh you could be right but honestly, when I scrutinised it off camera it really looked like one of the dorsal surfaces was rounded and without any ripples at all, like it was the original surface of the glass basically. It’s also not a flint type that shows up around here as far as I know. Maybe I’ll find it again someday so I can double check haha. Thanks for the info though 👍

[@scottlaugher-flintknapping]

@@flintingscandinavia1878 Damn ! Nevermind then eh. The points I've sent are nearly with you apparently(they're in Sweden now). Can you give me a shout when they arrive with you. They're taking ages🙄

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@scottlaugher-flintknapping Yooo no way! Thanks mate! Yeah I’ll let you know when they arrive haha. Add me on Facebook!

[@Jigger2361]

...great video! I a so intrigued by the wood and bone you find, Paul. Is the lake aerobic in nature? These are items we just don't see here "lying around" - so cool!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@Jigger2361 Thanks as always Douglas! Yes much of the material here has been in anaerobic conditions for much of their time. It’s only the last 60 years or so that the lake has been high enough to erode them out of the clay, it’s really fascinating stuff. I’m waiting for the day I stumble across a bone harpoon or similar 👍 I think due to the rarity and fragility of those that I’d be forced to remove it and deliver it to the pros.

[@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf]

The glaciers melt and leave Artifacts reviled that arkioligest get excited about like Iron age arrow heads that are considered really important sticks and woven baskets , arrow shafts,what not are recorded and archived about eight hundred to a thousand years old from the Viking culture!

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@ChristopherRoberts-vz4hf I think I know what you’re getting at. People are just more interested in the Vikings than Stone Age apparently 😔

[@danielflintknapping]

Omg that glass faker 😅 You should have kept it 😂

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@danielflintknapping Mate I know. I sort of wish I had now 😅👍

[@barrysharpe4551]

Maybe a beaver stick But it does look like cut marks

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@barrysharpe4551 Thanks Barry. There’s been no beavers down here for a long ole time but you could be right, just an old one. Really does look like cut marks though eh? 😄

[@michaeldixon3562]

I think surface finds should be able to be kept so they can be enjoyed. If they outlawed the buying and selling of artifacts there wouldnt be any money in collecting them Just my 2 cents

[@flintingscandinavia1878]

@@michaeldixon3562 I get what you’re saying. There needs to be a reporting system here but the government aren’t willing to pay for it. That way surface finds could be registered in a database (for science) and the finder could keep it. Maybe one day.