They've found your early sculpting tools at last.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48473088

No - thats far too small, Phil only uses 12 lb lump hammers, usually on his foot or thumb.. 

I wondered where I'd left that !! 

Cheers - Phil

Second year student Joe Neal, who found it, said: "I couldn't have hoped to find anything better."

While the find was interesting I still think that this student lacks some imagination.

Rockin'

Quote from: Orcs on 02 June 2019, 05:30:04 PM
Second year student Joe Neal, who found it, said: "I couldn't have hoped to find anything better."

While the find was interesting I still think that this student lacks some imagination.

Orcs, note this day in your note book - I agree with you! 

Digging a Neolithic layer of a bog in Wales he was hardly likely to discover Tutankhaten's treasure now, was he?

In my, oh so brief, archaeological career my claim to fame was finding a "Neolithic plate" ... which turned out to have been made in the Midlands in the middle of the 1890's and was presumably part of the remains of a Victorian picnic buried on site.

So much for my 15 minutes of fame!

No but he might have found some silver or gold from another era.

Quote from: Orcs on 02 June 2019, 10:14:01 PM
No but he might have found some silver or gold from another era.

And that would be better why?

If you study the indentations in the "axe" carefully it appears to carry some sort of linked and sequentially updated information. This suggests that they represent a primitive attempt at blockchain. So...cryptocurrency in physical form. It was discarded because it's value was zeroed in the acquisition of flint. I could, of course, be wrong.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 02 June 2019, 09:36:33 PM
Digging a Neolithic layer of a bog in Wales he was hardly likely to discover Tutankhaten's treasure now, was he?

In my, oh so brief, archaeological career my claim to fame was finding a "Neolithic plate" ... which turned out to have been made in the Midlands in the middle of the 1890's and was presumably part of the remains of a Victorian picnic buried on site.

So much for my 15 minutes of fame!

The neolithic era really hung on for a long time in the Midlands, didn't it?

Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 June 2019, 03:02:59 AM
The neolithic era really hung on for a long time in the Midlands, didn't it?

It still is stone age !!!