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Flint knapping and bone working weekend


Flint knapping and bone working weekend

£275.00

Course Location: Oxfordshire

Course Time: 13:00 Friday - 12:00 Sunday

Course Duration: 3 Days

Course size: 10

Course Age Range: 18+

Call US: 01234 351006 (09:30-16:30 7 Days) / 07843 064114 (Out of hours)

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Flint knapping and bone working weekend

This weekend course is all about getting to grips with the tool technology of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. 

This weekend course is running as a component part of our exclusive Primitive Skills Year course which looks at combining an exciting range of practical stone-age skills in a sequential 10 module package. 

Here we are offering you the extra choice of simply cherry picking a singular module of this longer duration course and creating for yourself a focused look at exactly the skills you may wish to cover.  

Specifically we will be looking at shaping flint and bone into a range of tools each with either a specific purpose such as an arrow head or as a more general shaping tool such as a wood working adze blade. 

The skills we aim to impart over the weekend's duration are centred around taking a raw material product and transforming it into a lasting item of simple functionality, beautiful aesthetics and most intriguingly huge historical importance - the very tools you are re creating turn up in our archaeological record regularly!

You will learn the knack of how to hold, hit, abrade, score, fracture, reduce and shape both flint and bone to leave you with the intended shapes for your projects from delicate bone needle to deadly flint projectile point.

Your course begins 13:00 Friday where we introduce you to our woodland camp and give you to time to set up sleeping systems and orientate yourself to camp life. The first afternoon is dedicated to an overview of the course with examples of a range of bone and stone tools as well as the tool kits needed to make them.

We begin by looking at making some points, awls and a needle. The kettle is always close by for hot drinks and we will break each day around 12:00 and 18:00 for meals. Work will likely continue into the evening in keeping with our more specialist courses allowing you maximum opportunity for hands-on experience.

The Saturday is spent finishing up any bone work projects and then taking a look at flint technology. You will be provided with a flint adze head to haft using a traditional raw hide binding before we take a look at producing Mesolithic cores from flint off which you will learn to strike a series of small blades called microliths.

We will take you through various uses of microliths before switching our attention to simple flint arrow heads before focusing in on more precise pressure flaking of flint to give a more refined shape to your stone tools.

By the Sunday your stone age adze will be ready to take for a spin and there will be the opportunity to try out your bone tools also, utilising your bone awls to punch holes in leather and bone needles to stitch with.

We hope to both inspire you with what can be accomplished with simple natural products and equip you with practical skill sets that you can take away with you - not to mention all the bone and stone goodies that are yours to keep at the conclusion of the course.

If you have any questions about any of the above please do get in touch.

  • Oxfordshire

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    Nestling on the banks of the River Thames we have sole access to a 250 Acre Private Woodlands just outside the Village of Appleton, in Oxfordshire. With 125 Acres designated as SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) there is an abundance of flora and fauna. With a mixed canopy throughout the woodlands and a mosaic of habitats this woodlands provides us with amazing resources, with Oak, Ash, Beech, Birch, Hazel, Hawthorn, Cherry, Blackthorn and more. We have resident populations of Muntjac, Roe and Fallow Deer. Plus a huge variety of other fauna with almost daily sightings of Stoat, Tawny Owl, Buzzard, Red Kite and so much more. We operate all of our courses here for individuals to book on to, including our Woodland Ways Weekend, we also offer private bookings, school bookings, stag do's and corporate events.

    Toilet facilities are available my means of composting toilets and a portaloo. There are central covered teaching area's within the woodlands comprising of timber and canvas structures.

    This wonderful wonderful woodlands is situated within 45 minutes of West London and the local train station (Oxford) is less than a 15 minute cab ride away. Please ensure when travelling to the venue you use the directions and not rely on Sat Nav in order to prevent getting lost.


This course can be purchased as an 18 month voucher, to book online choose "18 month voucher" from the options above and we will email the details over to you. Alternatively if you are purchasing this course as a gift we can post you a full colour gift presentation pack for just £4.25, just choose posted instead of emailed delivery option. Or contact us by phone to make the arrangements.

Call US: 01234 351006 (09:30-16:30 7 Days) / 07843 064114 (Out of hours)

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