Prehistoric Wirral
@prehistoricwirral
Independent archaeology research project unearthing and preserving the Prehistory of Wirral. Whilst celebrating it's nature. Est'd 2018. 📌Wirral Pennisula
🪨A Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic c.6,000-2,500 BC banded chert blade core 46x33mm. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Mesolithic #Neolithic #Wirral
🪨A Neolithic flint awl/drill bit dating to c.4,000-2,000. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Neolithic #Prehistory #Wirral
🪨Well, this is a little unusual. A Font-Robert type point 65x18mm made from chert, 14mm thick. Tang and shoulder, flat on the ventral side, on a crested flake, thought to be Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic c.6,000-3,500 BC #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Lithics #Wirral
Here's something cool, a live stream. I can never tire of Wales. For most of Prehistory Wirral and Wales were one. A time before countries, counties and borders. #Wales 🏴
It's hot out there today 😎🌞🥵 Here's something to help you feel cool...a fox in Winter ❄️🦊💙
🪨👀It's interesting to make comparisons for the same period but in different parts of Britain. #Wirral has no naturally occuring flint sources, just glacial pebbles. However, people were resouceful here's a #Neolithic stone awl 49x29mm comparable to that of flint found by @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
🪨A Late Upper Palaeolithic-Early Mesolithic c.10,000 BC crested blade stone tool 77x21mm and 14mm thick. Thought to be a scraper/planer tool. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #PrehistoricWirral
🪨My first attempt at experimental archaeology. I recreated a Neolithic flint backed blade, the experiment went surprisingly well and resulted in a viable tool prehistoricwirral.com/e1-neolithic... #Archaeology #Lithics #Neolithic #Ancienttechnology #Ancientcraft #PrehistoricWirral #Prehistory
🏹A tiny petit tranchet arrowhead, possibly used as a composite projectile point, part of a larger hunting tool. Dating to the late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic C.6,000-3,000 BC made from cream coloured banded chert. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Prehistory #ancientcrafts #PrehistoricWirral #Lithics
👣🐾The famous Formby footprints: groups of adults & children were discovered dating to 6,200 BC. Also animals: deer, horses, aurochs, wild boar, wolves & birds. It would be a similar picture in Mesolithic Wirral prehistoricwirral.com/mesolithic.h... #throwbackThursday #Archaeology #Mesolithic
📖👀‘NEW’ series launched ‘Bones, Tools and Traces: Reading the lives of animals and humans in Prehistory through what remains’. Based on the osseous material of prehistoric animals and birds recovered on Wirral www.prehistoricwirral.com/bones-tools-... 🦌🐦⬛🐢🐂🐗 #Archaeology #Zooarchaeology #Prehistory
🪨🦣A Mesolithic flint core 49x38mm that despite the best intentions of the knapper became unworkable due to the impurities and faults within it. On Wirral flint doesn’t occur naturally, it was found as river cobbles, that had mixed success. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral #Lithics
🦴🍖A brand new series in the Prehistory of Wirral: 'Bones, Tools and Traces'. First to be featured is the aurochs leg bone modified into a scoop/digging tool dating to the Mesolithic c.10,000-4,000 BC. Read more📖👀 prehistoricwirral.com/aurochs.html #FindsFriday #FossilFriday #Mesolithic #Wirral
🪨A Neolithic c.4,000-2,500 BC brown and white flint pebble bifacially worked flint chopper. Retouch to the distal cutting edge and thumb grip on the lower dorsal side. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #PrehistoricWirral #Lithics #Wirral #Flint
🪨🦣An Oldowan c.900,000 BC black flint cobble chopper tool 75x60mm. It displays classic Oldowan morphology and weighs 322g. Part a Lower Palaeolithic landscape occupation of Wirral. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Wirral #Lithics
🪨🏹A Neolithic chisel tip/transverse arrowhead 37X31mm made from dark brown chert. This type of arrowhead is indicative of the middle Neolithic c.3,000-2,500 BC. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Wirral #Lithics
🪨Greasby the oldest settlement in the region. Discovered in 1987 along with Irby, excavated 1987-92 by Museum of Liverpool, both dated from lithics alone to 7,800 BC. Subsequently Greasby dated in 2018 from burnt hazlenut shells to 8,500 BC. #ThrowbackThursday #Archaeology #Wirral #Mesolithic
🪨Residual #Mesolithic core 25x20mm of orange flint with white outer cortex of a type found in Southern England. Indicating long distance travel. The core was discarded near a palaeostream as it became exhausted, last microlith removed 13mm. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral
🪨Before and after. A brown flint notched scraper 48mm in length with retouch to the left ventral edge, used to plane wood. Along side a flint nodule that would have formed the raw material for the tool. Flint pebble found in glacial till. #Archaeology #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Prehistory
Panoramic views from Burton Point across the River Dee to Wales, a view that never tires. #HillFortsWednesday #IronAge #Wirral
✝️The Romans brought Christianity to Britain after 43 AD and so to Wirral this early Christian cross 70x80mm was possibly a votive offering. Evidence of the earliest Christian worship in Wirral🙏 #FindsFriday on #Sunday #RomanBritain #Archaeology #Christianity #Religion #Wirral
The Esbeek handaxe reminds me of this tanged spearhead from Wirral, also of banded quartzite and with a similar aesthethic appeal to it. Thought also to be Middle Palaeolithic. #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Wirral
🪨👁️A Bactrian banded agate ‘eye’ amulet thought to have protective properties. Dating to the Iron Age c.800 BC-43AD showing wide ranging trade networks in luxury goods of the local Cornovii people that reached as far as Central Asia. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Wirral #IronAge
🌸💚The beauty of nature, looking good at the moment native wildflowers Cowslip (Primula veris) and Common Dog Violet (Viola riviniana) #Nativeflowers #Nature #Beauty #Outdoors #Wildflowers #Wirral
✍️🪦The Anglo-Saxon Athelmund Stone dating to c.600 AD. The first evidence of writing in Old English runes, proving the community there were cultured and literate prehistoricwirral.com/overchurch-s... The original stone is in the Grosvenor Museum. #MuseumMonday #AngloSaxon #Wirral #Medieval
🪨🐢A Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 BC turtle back scraper 34X30mm made from pale grey banded chert with iron leeching from within the fabric, of a type found in North Wales. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Prehistory
🪨🔪The cutting edge of archaeology! Two Neolithic stone knives; small flint knife 45mm in length, larger shale knife 130mm. Found in 2 very different localities and displaying great human ingenuity. #Archaeology #Neolithic #Lithics #Prehistory