Dr. James Dilley

@ancientcraftuk.bsky.social

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Experimental Archaeologist; Media consultant; Specialist in Flintknapping & Bronze casting: see my work displayed at The British Museum & Stonehenge Find me at: https://www.ancientcraft.co.uk/

Video shows Dr. James Dilley making a flint arrow by pressure flaking with an antler tine onto a flint flake. He pushes off tiny flakes to made a triangle before cutting and shaping the arrow shaft. The arrowhead is glued to the shaft and feather flights bound. The arrowhead is then loosed from a bow.
Video shows flint spear head
Panning view of Happisburgh beach on a calm, cloudy day. Camera pans towards beach stretching ahead and continues down the beach. Camera pans down to a tear drop shaped flint which is picked up. It’s turned over to reveal a flint handaxe.
Video shows a Palaeolithic handaxe being flaked from a nodule of dark grey flint. The flintknapper is using a quartzite hammer stone to detach flakes from both sides, flipping the flint in his hands to strike at each side. The handaxe takes on a teardrop shape with sharp, serrated edges. It measure around 30cm in length.
Video shows flake of black flint being held up to the sunlight to show its sharp edges. Flake then transitions into a replica Neolithic arrowhead before the video rewinds to show the original flake transitioning into a finished early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowhead to indicate some of the potential options a knapper could have from a flake.
Image of Palaeolithic style handaxe made from shiny material with silver, metallic lustre.
Screen shot from the AncientCraft Facebook showing a post with a video of flintknapping. Most recent comment reads: “Thank GOD Trump did win or we'd be in a drag queen commie hell right now. That's if we lived through the derp states nuclear war using the cabals' naughty baby the Ukraine who likes to put bio weapon labs on the front with Russia.”
Video shows large, flaked flint oval which is turned over in the flintknappers hands to show a recently detached flake. Once the flake is removed a fossil becomes visible. The fossil looks like a spiders web, but is in fact the silicon filled gaps between the tiny spine plates of a sea urchin.
Two flint axes laying on top of Autumn leaves. Both axes are fully flaked and ready to ground and polished.
Bronze Age flanged axes with broad, flaring blades. One unpolished while the other is hafted in a wooden handle and bound with rawhide.
Later middle Bronze Age shelf type palstave axe
24 Hours in the Stone Age book displayed among stone tools at New Scientist Live.
A selection of flint tools displayed in the Museum London's prehistory gallery. From left two flint cores, one large teardrop shaped handaxes and four smaller teardrop shaped handaxes on the right.
Long bronze spear head on wooden shaft in front of standing stone. Spear head has triangular blade with small loops either side of the socket below the widest part of the blade.