Exceptional rare Lower Palaeolithic flint cobble chopper c.400,000 BC 🪨 #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic #Archaeology #Wirral
Prehistoric Wirral
@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social
Independent archaeology research project unearthing and preserving the Prehistory of Wirral. Whilst celebrating it's nature. Est'd 2018. https://www.prehistoricwirral.com 📌Wirral Pennisula
We are delighted to announce our timetable of Evolutionary Anthropology talks for Semester 1 of the new academic year! 🥳🤩 All of our talks will be streamed online via MS Teams. Our first talk this semester will be on the 8th October 2026, from 13:00-14:00 GMT. We hope you will join us!
A large 47x40mm chert transverse arrowhead from the Middle Neolithic c.3,400-2,600 BC. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Wirral
🪨A rare Lower Palaeolithic Clactonian c.421,000-412,000 BC flint flake backed knife 52x36mm. Thought to be made by Homo heidelbergensis. Found on the East coast of England. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Palaeolithic
🪨A rather nicely designed Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 flint slightly notched scraper 41x19mm and 12mm thick providing a sturdy grip. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Lithics #Wirral
🦣🪨Living it large. The mystery of the Wirral giant handaxe. What was it's purpose-unfinished? A training piece? The typology is Middle Palaeolithic... www.prehistoricwirral.com/giant-handax... #Archaeology #Mystery #Gianthandaxe #Palaeolithic #Wirral #Prehistory #Lithics
Giant Handaxe
A giant mystery. It is unsure why giant handaxes were created. There are many debates as to their social and cultural purpose, possibly prestige, fertility symbols, ritual, or just for the challenge.....
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🥾🚶♀️🚶➡️It starts in one week's time, who is visiting what? #HeritageOpenDays #Wirral
Prehistoric Wirral@prehistoricwirral.bsky.social · last mo.📖History and heritage: Plenty of events listed for next month's Wirral Heritage Open Days 11th-20th Septemeber 2026 ⛪⚱️🚶♀️🚶➡️🏠🌳🍂🌿🪨 drive.google.com/file/d/1KIH4...
🪨A Neolithic c.4,000-2,000 BC flint notched side scraper 29x33mm with retouch to the left edge. The right edge is smooth and was possibly used as a planer. A dual woodworking tool. Would also make a good blunt edge transverse arrowhead. #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic #Wirral
✨🏰⛪Missed out on Bayeux Tapestry tickets? No problem! This #HeritageOpenDays take your own tour of Norman architecture right here in Wirral! 🥾🚶➡️⛪ 🌳Landican is recorded in the Domesday Book as Landechêne-French for 'Moor of Oaks'!🌳🌳🌳 www.prehistoricwirral.com/the-moor-of-... #Wirral #Normans #History
The Moor of Oaks
The transition from Anglo-Saxon rule to the Norman era was not a descent into ruin but a highly calculated, sophisticated corporate takeover by a cultured European elite. As the legendary...
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The seasons are changing, and so too are the butterflies and moths you can find in your wild spaces 🦋🍂 #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
How the true English history of Wirral is being systematically erased in favour of Norwegain Viking fiction... www.prehistoricwirral.com/the-viking-f... There is no evidence that Ingimund settled in West Kirby and founded St Bridget's Church in 902 AD!
The Viking Fiction
The West Kirby Museum has decided to fabricate a Viking history of the town. If there is so much genuine Viking archaeology on Wirral, why do people keep making it up?
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✨🌊10,000 years of sacred history! 🧊🦭From Ice Age pioneers carving mystical seal totems to Iron Age tribes worshipping a river goddess to Medieval monks-West Kirby has been a spiritual hub for millennia 🌊✨🦭⚱️✝️⛪ #History #Heritage #WestKirby #Wirral
📖Wirral in Anglo-Saxon times was a picture of immense power, wealth, deep-rooted organisation, culture and religion populated by wealthy sophisicated elite of English nobility 🤴👸👑📚🏰⛪🐂🦌 www.prehistoricwirral.com/anglo-saxon.... #SaxonSunday #Medieval #MedievalBluesky #Wirral #Mercia #AngloSaxon
Anglo Saxon
The period c.450 - 1066 AD
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🪨🪓A polished Neolithic axehead was found with its wooden handle in Tranmere Pool, Birkhenhead in hte 19th Century too, but the wood was not conserved sadly. The stone is from Great Langdale also. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/axe... #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic
Axe head
Neolithc stone axe head found in waterlogged deposits at Tranmere Pool, Wirral. It was discovered in the 19th century with part of its wooden handle still attached but that was not conserved and soon ...
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Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · last mo.A rare survival from Neolithic Cumbria some 5,000 years ago! A polished greenstone axehead, quarried in the Langdales, with its original wooden handle preserved! Found at Ehenside Tarn in 1869, it is the only hafted Neolithic axe known from England to date! 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
📖A brief Prehistory of Oxton, Wirral. From the existing documented finds of Neolithic axe head to Roman coin hoard. Anglo-Saxon settlement 'Oxa tun' 🐂 www.prehistoricwirral.com/oxton.html #Prehistory #Localhistory #Wirral #Neolithic #Roman
Oxton
An Anglo-Saxon settlement. The name originates from the Old English/Anglo-Saxon 'Oxa' meaning ox and 'tun' meaning farm or enclosure. Indicating the specialised form of animal husbandry with oxen...
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A new study is reshaping what we know about Europe’s last hunter-gatherers: 8,500 years ago, they were making repeated 100km sea voyages to Malta. 🌊
Europe’s stone age hunters made sea voyages to Malta – thousands of years before evidence of sails - University of Liverpool News
Europe’s stone age hunters made sea voyages to Malta – thousands of years before evidence of sails
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📖History and heritage: Plenty of events listed for next month's Wirral Heritage Open Days 11th-20th Septemeber 2026 ⛪⚱️🚶♀️🚶➡️🏠🌳🍂🌿🪨 drive.google.com/file/d/1KIH4...
🪨🦌Getting the handle on Prehistory. A collection of bone handles that formed part of composite tools from a Mesolithic settlement c.10,000-4,000 BC on Wirral. #FindsFriday #Archaeology #Mesolithic #Prehistory #Wirral
“When the corn is ripe, flocks of sparrows raid the heavy-grain ears.” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
⚠️ Want to see more Durotriges Big Dig Iron Age #archaeology? ⚠️ Of course you do !! Catch *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders* with @rakshadigs.bsky.social and us on Channel 4 this Saturday 8 August 7pm 👍 Salamanda Media Bournemouth University 👇👇👇👇
🦌🪨Another in the series-'Bones, Tools and Traces': Red Deer Bone Handle www.prehistoricwirral.com/red-deer-bon... #FindsFriday
Red Deer Bone Handle
Red Deer: An Icon of the Mesolithic
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🪨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
Durotriges Dig@durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3mo agoIs that awl you found? A Neolithic borer / piercer, a task-specific stone tool, primarily designed to make holes in wood, hides or antler, made of flint over 5,000 years ago Photographed as freshly excavated at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in June #Durotriges26 #FindsFriday #FlintFriday
🪨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
