Museum Collection: Neolithic Flint Implements
The Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) was marked by the first introduction of farming, both in growing crops and keeping domesticated animals. Large areas of the country were cleared of ancient woodland to make fields, but hunting and gathering still went on. Metal tools were not yet available and the Neolithic people made tools from flint and polished stone axes were traded widely.
No settlement sites or burials have yet been found in the Bradford Hundred area, but flint implements are not unusual.
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A scraper made from a flake from a flint core. It was found on the Llewellen Palmer allotment gardens, Sladesbrook, Bradford.
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This is a small flint core from which several long narrow blades have been struck. it was found behind Tory, Bradford, just below the plateau of Budbury, which could have made a good camp site for a hunting expedition.
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Neolithic arrowheads show great skill in flaking flint. These were found on the Iford estate, Westwood.
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This Neolithic arrowhead was found in a field near Monkton in Broughton Gifford. It was made from a flake that has been struck from a flint core that has been trimmed to make the cutting edges, the three breaks on this side are where the previous flakes were struck from the same core. The shaft of the arrow fitted into the hollow base.
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