Surprisingly I found a flint tool in the lane tonight.
Several driveways have just had new gravel put down. This flint must have accidentally got kicked out into the lane. I had absolutely no idea that flint tools can be found in gravel, but it seems it's quite common. People living alongside rivers often dropped or discarded flints that then got rolled down the river with other stones, and collected at a point that centuries later became a gravel pit.
Then it got dug up and carried to near where I live.
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Surprisingly I found a flint tool in the lane tonight.
Several driveways have just had new gravel put down. This flint must have accidentally got kicked out into the lane. I had absolutely no idea that flint tools can be found in gravel, but it seems it's quite common. People living alongside rivers often dropped or discarded flints that then got rolled down the river with other stones, and collected at a point that centuries later became a gravel pit.
Then it got dug up and carried to near where I live.