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Flint knapping and bone working weekend


Flint knapping and bone working weekend

£275.00

Course Location: Derbyshire

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)

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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. 

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.

  • Derbyshire - Haddon Hall Estate

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    Set in the Heart of the stunning Peak District National Park our woodlands are based on this beautiful 3800 acre historical estate, home to Lord and Lady Edward Manners. A warm and caring family estate, woodlands comprise over 600 acres, and our beautiful camp is nestled on the banks of the river Wye. Surrounded by a mature mixed canopy of Oak, Ash, Birch, and numerous conifers the diverse mix of flora is home to a wondferful array of large and small fauna. You may spot Fallow, or see the sign of badger, and will be immersed into a cacophany of bird noise as you share the home of owl, buzzard, woodpecker and more.


This course can be purchased as an 18 month voucher, to book online choose "36 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)

We’re happy to take course bookings and payments over the phone. Simply give us a call and we’ll place the booking for you before emailing through confirmation. Alternatively, drop us an email at info@woodland-ways.co.uk and we’ll call you back.

If your course booking is for a gift, no problem, just let us know at the time of booking and we’ll email you a personalised gift certificate or 18-month voucher to print at home. Or, for a small supplement, we’ll print out a gift pack and pop it in the post for you.