petrafjord: Left-handed small hand (nut-cracker cooking tool?) flint hammerstone - a bit arty..... 2024_0206_114255 copy
petrafjord: Hammerstone for a small left-hander(female?) Bit arty as well:-)..... 2024_0206_114216 copy
petrafjord: Brown flint arrowhead..... 2024_0206_114127 copy
petrafjord: Big tough-hand handaxe (165mm) and picture-stone flint knapping pattern on base..... 2024_0205_144522 copy
petrafjord: Big hand (tough gadgie) handaxe (165mm) with a pic - also a chalk patinaed smaller tool with a reminder of the beasties they had to put up with. N.B. Chalk about 35miles east of bay 120,000 years ago and sea-level 400 ft lower than today. 2024
petrafjord: Large napped flint 'display tool' (bottom) used in training? - same found in Shetlands..... 2024_0204_155654 copy
petrafjord: Large napped flint 'display tool'(top) used in training? similar found in Shetlands..... 2024_0204_155600 copy
petrafjord: Fossil horse 100,000 year old leg bone from under North Sea - submerged Doggerland 2023CE-0427
petrafjord: Walrus tusk from within glacial till - chopped out of walrus using flint tool and burnt at tip prior to LGM ice melt..... 2023CE-0427
petrafjord: Large brown flint handaxe and hammerstone - from Castletown beach..... 2022_1201_104545 copy
petrafjord: Heavy large brown flint handaxe and hammerstone - Castletown Shore by harbour..... Note concave knapping..... 2022_1201_104330 copy
petrafjord: 'Polar Bear' flint tool found on Helmsdale shore.. Shows love of art in those days plus a knowledge of the ice beastie... 2022_0504_115213 copy
petrafjord: Find the flints... 2022_0322_103429 copy
petrafjord: North side of riverside with flint and fossilized-wood containing pebble beach.... 2022_0322_103331 copy
petrafjord: Large 23cm (9 1/2'') flint from Dunnet Beach. Appears to have been formed in marly chalk. RSShand2022_0315_110730 copy
petrafjord: Large 23cm (9 1/2'') flint from Dunnet Beach. Appears to have been poker-fronted in base of glacial ice moving in from pickup area about thirty miles east of coastline via Reiss-Dunnet channel? 2022_0315_110349 copy
petrafjord: Spot the differences between us and this museum grade copy of a 1.6mya female Homo ergaster the inventors of the Acheulian Handaxe 2021_1031_191344 copy
petrafjord: Two of our ancients - nearest is a museum grade replica of a 1.6mya female Homo ergaster and the smaller a silicified skull of a junior? earlier species? 2021_1031_191013 copy
petrafjord: Ancient rock carving - broken-off left-side of face 'repaired' by laughing German POW who I watched coming-up the pathie with a hammer and chisel to re-join the rest who were dismantling the brae gunposts 2021_0412_102712 copy
petrafjord: Two smiling ancients on dining table - silicified one on left from the Libyan Desert one on right a museum standard replica of female Homo ergaster KNM-ER3733 2020_0913_210345 copy
petrafjord: Now I wonder if you can recognize which one most closely resembles facially two present day well known politicians.....2020_0831_154239 copy
petrafjord: History of 'toons' early inhabitants is to be found on these estuary shores - plus bits from over 1.2 billions years ago - interesting??? 2020_0813_122502 copy
petrafjord: 2008_Trinkie storm pollution and is that a skull or ambergris:-))
petrafjord: 2020_0414_093835 Rock carving of young female and ae locals never notice it!!!
petrafjord: 2020_0414_093824 Rock carving of young female - needs a hairdo - no wrinkles:-))
petrafjord: 2020_0414_084250 Womans face - but who carved it and how many years ago. Was there in 1940's as German prisoner put eye on broken section of face - seen him with chisel and hammer coming up path laughing - his were dismantling the gun posts.
petrafjord: 2019_1230_123138 Silicified H. saharanensis!!! (may have an old story concerning it's previous find in a Tabesti/Tasilli cave) and H. ergaster museum grade copy. Wine always reminds me of lovely friends in Kato Varosha.....
petrafjord: 2019_0708_101600 River at unusually low level with rock doves at far side. Source of flint tools - not ballast!
petrafjord: Riverside flint tools a very similar pattern known from NW India (hammerstone/scraper/ptp?) 2018_0604_140036 copy
petrafjord: Riverside flint tool 2018_0604_135856 copy