Really nice too see your back I was spinning out thinking I lost your channel somehow, nearly got through your videos hahah 😂 just happy to see your channel again and your ok and well ✌🏻
Hello again! Since Christmas the northern part of Germany was under water. Now many fields are only mud. The farmers couldn't do their work. Meanwhile It's becoming a little bit better and we can start looking for flint tools here in my area.
Hello! Yep I think the whole of Northern Europe suffered the same with the wet winter. Maybe it means a super dry summer coming, bad for life, great for flint hunting the lakes 😅
@@apondas399 hi! I take it you mean the earlier videos. I had to remove them at request of an archaeologist. Sorry about that 😔 but there will be more new videos coming.
Your knowledgeable and astute lithic analysis is impressive and much appreciated. It always good to see a collector with a scientific approach and the intention of furthering science. I would definitely check out an aquarium channel. Thanks for posting
Hi Paul, As one viewer, I appreciate your openness to hear a different viewpoint, and the decision to change your hunting style. You're unlikely to hear this from another viewer, but there are other esoteric reasons for leaving things where you found them. For example some tools, stone effigies, carved bones, etc. may actually be prayer offerings from our ancestors. Usually prayers like that were meant to ensure abundance, balance, and good relationship. When we take those away - we are taking something very precious from our lands as a result of our collective forgetting- and if you believe in that sort of thing - our ancestors, animals, plants, etc. are worse for it. Many Native Americans are upset at the way cultural objects are stolen from their ancestral sites and never returned for that and other reasons. There are also scientific reasons - as you mentioned, like using cultural objects to establish migratory patterns and trade routes. So thanks. I'll keep watching! I've learned alot about ancestral lithics from your channel and for that I am very grateful. Be well.
Hi, yes I see what you’re getting at. I’m not completely against the idea honestly. I’ve had a few paranormal experiences in my time so I do believe there’s more to this world than meets the idea. Thanks for the comment. 😊
@@flintingscandinavia1878 You're welcome. Thanks for replying! And thank you again - I've learned so much about european lithics by watching your channel! :)
@@flintingscandinavia1878 yeah my brain was a bit off at the that time as my son was very sick in hospital 😑. Btw I heard you wanted a stone for your aquarium, can i send you a flintaxe or a bladecore you can put in? 😁
@@danielflintknapping Oooo yes you can send me that! Haha, we really should meet up and take a walk sometime honestly 👍 sorry to hear about your Son though, I hope he’s better now.
Good to see you back. Can I presume they tripped you over with the local Historic Environment Act? As I understand your local act the approach to lithics here in Blighty is very different. And if you get involved in a proper field walking survey on fields as busy as that you're going to need a sauna or long hot bath for your back 😄
Hahaha, I’ve walked with my head looking for cool things on the floor since I was young so I’m well trained 😂 Regarding the other thing.. I wasn’t exactly hit with anything. Just friendly advice that I decided I should take on board 👍
Just curious if this is the standard debate that most archeologists give to private collectors about “preserving for the future generations” and site degradation, or is there something else that has changed. It hurt my soul to see you put that black phase back in the ground…Over here archaeologists are so quick to tell us how much damage we do by collecting but there is no efforts to preserve or prevent the destruction from construction or development. On our side of the pond, it’s all bureaucracy and bull crap about money. It’s sad because most of the time, the preservation of history is an afterthought.
This was more a friendly conversation and advice to keep myself out of potential trouble. It did hurt to put the pieces back but honestly not as much as I expected. But thanks Jonathan 👍
Good to see you back here mate but I must admit that I have mixed feelings with your new approach. It's kind of a shame to see someone so passionate about saving history reduced to replanting only 😢 Still great to see you out again 👍
Thanks 🙂 yes I know what you mean, but honestly I feel like I’ve leveled up in a way. Sometimes I did question what my true goal was with all of this. Now if I can do some official work then I feel like that’s progress.
@flintingscandinavia1878 as long as you're happy with whatever situation that has transpired,then that's all that matters 👍 My wosrt nightmare is waking up to a united Ireland and having to hand all my flints and metal detecting finds over to the Dublin museum 😳😅
@@MrMugilidae Haha I understand you there mate. Luckily you can remove loose finds that aren’t related to any kind of settlement here and all my best pieces like the large axe and dagger fit into that category 👍
I sent a female mud larker your way it seems that while bottle hunting and stuff in the Thames they find wicked blades very similar to what you find good luck !
Oh yeah, I’ve seen some bladework from the Thames posted before online. From Middle paleolithic all the way to Neo stuff. So much history on that river. Cheers Daniel 😉
@@flintingscandinavia1878 I really hope that you are able to get involved in some excavations and such and just to verify many of the cultural era's have been studied in depth here in the us and so many of the shows especially east coast are in cultivated areas and the surface finds hold little information or value to archeological research and the collector's are saving it from the plow theres other situations in the west where you lose your stuff and go to jail but most of these involve looting grave sites bad karma anyway .and then you have private land areas owners choice .so anyway I hope it works out that you get to enjoy your outings and if that's your wish maybe make a really meaningful discovery. Myself even though the blades cores and microlith stuff is indeed very cool I would still like to find one of those finally worked axes .best of luck friend.
@@John-M. Alive yes but there were no federales or any kind of authority at all that got involved, just some friendly advice 😄 but hey.. sure! Have you ever made a pitted ware arrow? Give one of those a try!
@@flintingscandinavia1878 Oh man that tri-facial point kicked my hiney. Did not expect it do be so hard to knap. Just super confusing if you don’t have the right spall to start out with. Anything else? Hahaha.
@@John-M. haha sorry man! Those are hard to knap, I wouldn’t even know where to start. I figured it’d be some good knapping challenge 😅 you could always try to make an A type though. Basically a long bipolar blade with a tang and retouched into a point.
....from an archaeologist I find this refreshing and awesome! if only more "field walkers" here in North America were as responsible and passionate. I have never seen anyone actually find then leave the lithics in the field which elevates all this to a very cool level... I keep editing but this "approach" is actually unprecedented on YT and is a new highwater mark in "field walking" ... what would be cool would be to photograph each piece, shoot it in with GPS, do some gritty on-the-spot analysis and onward we go... this is "cutting edge" stuff, really, pardon the pun 👍
Appreciate the comment Jigger, but I can’t help think that putting them back into the plough layer is doing the finds a disservice 🤷♂️ I’ll keep doing what I do. Cheers from Sweden.
Hahaha it was just painful to sit down for a few days, other than that I’m fine. Hey, did you see your hollowbased arrow in this video by any chance? 😂
@@flintingscandinavia1878 i just had to rewatch , makes for a very cool tank ornament ! very fitting decor , i hope it inspires you to go out and find some more real ones
Weird logic, you’ve mostly limited yourself to searching mechanically disturbed sites, therefore, those finds are not in situ, and have no archaeological value. Heartbreaking that you just reintroduced those pristine artifacts into one of the most abrasive environments, cultivated land.
I do hope youre just legally putting them back but once the camera is off youre grabbing them. Youre not helping preserve history doing this. They will just be chewed up and destroyed by tillers and combines. I really hope you dont buy into the "The Context is Lost!" argument that does not apply to beach, river or farmland artifacts.
