We found this long, slender flint blade - snapped and so once longer still - on a ridge overlooking the long-lost lake of Skipsea Bail Mere. It is early - Early Mesolithic, perhaps earlier - and a hunter-gatherer life is folded into it.
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A Mesolithic microlith, minuscule but mighty. Found in our excavations overlooking the largest of the now-vanished lakes at Skipsea, Yorkshire. #Skipsea2024
Deer skulls featuring carved eyeholes, dating back 11,000 years, unearthed at the Mesolithic archaeological site of Star Carr in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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