Courses
Flint Knapping and Stone Tools
- Prerequisite: None None
- Duration: 3 days
- Cost: £200
This class will be focused on the importance of stone. Students will gain the skill and experience of reducing a boulder of flint down to a useful tool such as hand axe, adze, arrow head, scraper etc. Other methods of working stone will also be covered, such as pecking, to give an understanding of how to produce stone mallets, hammers, bowls etc.
Some of the skills covered
- Hard hammer percussion
- Soft hammer percussion
- Pressure flaking
- Blade production
- Spalling
- Pecking
- Stone selection
Gallery
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