Flint Knapping Workshop
Presented by: Oxfordshire Museum Service| 0 | WOODSTOCK: The Oxfordshire Museum (info) |
|---|---|
| P | Saturday 12th July, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 10:15am |
| . | 18 and over |
| C | Other |
Event information
Discover the art of the oldest craft in the world: Flintknapping. How did prehistoric people make tools to survive the Stone Age?
The oldest flint tools found in Britain date to around 1 million years ago, the latest around 3000 years ago so you will have the chance to try your hand at a process used for 99.7% of human presence in Britain!
Experimental archaeologist Dr. James Dilley will guide you through the process of making your own flint tools to take home. You’ll start with learning about flint, how it formed and what tools people used in the past to work it.
After a brief health and safety briefing, you’ll start your journey with core and flake technology. This is where you’ll learn how to strike flint using a pebble to get it to flake successfully. The next step will be making flake tools like scrapers, piercers, knives and saws which will test your strike accuracy and discipline. The last challenge of the day will be handaxes and working flint on two sides to make a bifacial tool. As well as a hammerstone, you’ll use an abrader and antler hammer.
This workshop is an introduction to flintknapping where the aim of the day will be for attendees to go home with a variety of different stone tools they have made, new flintknapping skills and a new appreciation for prehistoric technology.
This workshop will run from 10:15am to 4:15pm and includes lunch.
Please note this event must meet our minimum number requirements in order to run. If we do not meet this requirement you will be notified at least a week prior to the start of the course and issued with a full refund including the booking fee.
