Blogetty Blog 22: A Bright Spark – Charles Thomas Lucas
Agriculture apart, the first commercial operation in Britain may have been flint knapping. Flint, expertly split, was fashioned into the sharpest tools and weapons available before the discovery of metallurgy. Flint is a form of quartz which forms nodules and masses in chalk and limestone and its use dates back millions of years to the beginning of the Stone Age. Flint was immensely important in the ancient world for…