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Jonathan Last

@johnnythin.bsky.social

For #FlintFriday, an anonymous poem about an arrowhead , published in the Kirkintilloch Herald 100 years ago this week. I don't usually care for verse written in archaic language (even for 1926) but I like the conceit at the end that in some post-apocalyptic future these things might be used again…

From the Kirkintilloch Herald, 29 Sep 1926 (via the British Newspaper Archive):
"Prehistoric Remains.
(A Flint Arrow-head Found on a Hill.)
The same wild hills are round me flung,
And this—the same stern brow,
But where's the hand that fashioned me,
Where is that hunter now?
With him I ranged the oaken wood,
The mountain clough in storm and flood,
When oft my barbs were red with blood—
O, hunter, where art thou?

The deer that loved yon northern hills,
Now looming bare and grey,
The wolf that oft, like lightning flash,
I flew so swift to slay,
The shaft to which he bound me true,
The springy bow of upland yew,
His bare strong arm once backward drew—
O, tell me, where are they?

I wake, and see the flight of time
From ages pale and wan,
The myriads that have come and gone
Since first my race began;
And I, a bit of fashioned stone,
Left on these moorlands, bleak and lone,
Have seen all that these hills have known
Of little human span.

Fling me afar among the ling,
Where I would ever be,
Till this proud Scotland hath returned
To her wild infancy ;
And when the ages long have rolled,
And Time repeats its usage old,
Some young barbarian, strong and bold,
Will head a shaft with me."

October 2, 2026 at 8:01 AM

Prehistoric Wirral

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social

Exceptional rare Lower Palaeolithic flint cobble chopper c.400,000 BC 🪨
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral

October 2, 2026 at 7:58 AM

Luc Amkreutz

@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

Project #FlintFinder is underway. Meanwhile we have documented the first batches of Doggerland lithics through standardised photography. Many more to come! #FlintFriday #FindsFriday

September 18, 2026 at 6:44 PM

Prehistoric Wirral

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social

🪨A rare Lower Palaeolithic Clactonian c.421,000-412,000 BC flint flake backed knife 52x36mm. Thought to be made by Homo heidelbergensis. Found on the East coast of England.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic

September 18, 2026 at 7:35 AM

Kevin Wilbraham

@kpw1453.bsky.social

Leaf flint arrowheads which were found at Maiden Castle in Dorset. The arrowheads are now part of the collections at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Prehistory #Dorset

September 18, 2026 at 5:46 AM

Luc Amkreutz

@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

#FlintFinder @rmoudheden.bsky.social featured in the Reuvens fund innovation glossy #FlintFriday

September 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM

Prehistoric Wirral

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social

🪨A rather nicely designed Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 flint slightly notched scraper 41x19mm and 12mm thick providing a sturdy grip.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Lithics #Wirral

September 11, 2026 at 7:02 AM

Antiquity Journal

@antiquity.ac.uk

Lithics from Epipalaeolithic (c. 12,900–12,000 cal BC) Koskarlı Cave, Türkiye #FlintFriday

Showing close parallels with industries in Anatolia and the Levant, they provide an opportunity to explore regional interaction at the end of the Pleistocene.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Ten stone & obsidian tools of different shapes (cores, blades, scrapers etc.) and colours, alongside a grooved antler fragment and perforated animal tooth.

September 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM

Prehistoric Wirral

@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social

🪨A Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 BC flint notched side scraper 29x33mm with retouch to the left edge. The right edge is smooth and was possibly used as a planer. A dual woodworking tool. Would also make a good blunt edge transverse arrowhead.
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Wirral

September 4, 2026 at 7:27 AM

Kevin Wilbraham

@kpw1453.bsky.social

Flint arrowheads from Dunston - an area of early settlement in the Northampton area. Dating from the Neolithic to the early Bronze Age, the arrowheads are part of the collections at Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #Prehistory #Northamptonshire

September 4, 2026 at 6:22 AM

Luc Amkreutz

@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

For #FlintFriday and #FindsFriday this tiny fossilized sea urchin (I think) on a late Palaeolithic or Mesolithic flake from the @rmoudheden.bsky.social Merckx collection.

August 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM

Luc Amkreutz

@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

We are working on a large collection of lithics from various sites in Brabant, Limburg and Belgium, dating to the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. They were collected over many decades by an amateur archaeologist. For #FindsFriday and #FlintFriday we picked this beautiful with its banded inclusion.

August 21, 2026 at 8:09 PM

Isle of Wight Archaeology

@iowarchaeology.bsky.social

Leaf and kite arrowheads from the #IsleofWight coast

#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Neolithic

August 21, 2026 at 11:08 AM

Save Redland Library

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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Friday

#FrescoFriday

#FontsOnFriday

#FriaryFriday

#RuinedPrioryFriday

#FortressFriday

#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday

#FlintFriday

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August 21, 2026 at 7:33 AM

Save Redland Library

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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Friday

#FrescoFriday

#FontsOnFriday

#FriaryFriday

#RuinedPrioryFriday

#FortressFriday

#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday

#FlintFriday

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August 14, 2026 at 6:39 AM

Kevin Wilbraham

@kpw1453.bsky.social

Some of the shafts and quarries of the Neolithic flint mines at Grime’s Graves, near Thetford in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #GrimesGraves #Prehistory #Norfolk

August 14, 2026 at 6:20 AM

Save Redland Library

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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Friday

#FrescoFriday

#FontsOnFriday

#FriaryFriday

#RuinedPrioryFriday

#FortressFriday

#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday

#FlintFriday

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August 7, 2026 at 8:25 AM

Antiquity Journal

@antiquity.ac.uk

Lithics from the Esfarayen Plain, north-eastern Iran #FlintFriday

The first documented evidence of Lower Palaeolithic lithics east of the Central Iranian Desert, they fill a crucial gap in our understanding of early hominin migration into Central Asia.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Three pieces of stone, modified by knapping.

July 31, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Save Redland Library

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1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Friday

#FrescoFriday

#FontsOnFriday

#FriaryFriday

#RuinedPrioryFriday

#FortressFriday

#FindsFriday
#FragmentFriday

#FlintFriday

1 of 12 #FridayHashtags

July 31, 2026 at 7:29 AM

Kevin Wilbraham

@kpw1453.bsky.social

Leaf-bladed prehistoric flint arrowheads from Yorkshire. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #YorkshireMuseum

July 31, 2026 at 6:17 AM

Luc Amkreutz

@prehistoryrmo.bsky.social

#FlintFriday
The magnificent chronological typological display for the Stone Age @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. Note how the Weichselian glacier crosscuts the timeline and symbolises an absence of finds: powerful museological design! Detail is of some late Middle Palaeolithic tools from Ranis 🇩🇪