Identifying amateur archaeological finds?

[platinumsage]

Are there any experts here, or is there anywhere on the web where clueless people can get archaeologists or people with some clue to ID their random stuff? I did look for forums but didn't find anything.

I have this bit of flint which I've long suspected looks a bit like an arrow head, although admittedly a bit of a shit one. Perhaps it's just a random bit of flint.

Also this fragment of glazed pottery which could be from the 1960s, or maybe the 17th century or something?

 

[kabbes]

If I were an archaeological expert there is no way I’d reveal it for fear of a thousand people on the internet showing me their bits of broken back garden pottery.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

My dad found a spearhead in the Thames, he sent it off to the British museum who dated it (4300 years old) and offered him £200 for it (early 1980's). He turned them down and still has it. Guess they might have a look at your flint, doubt they would on the pottery, a local museum might though, where did you find it?

 

[Pickman's model]

Are there any experts here, or is there anywhere on the web where clueless people can get archaeologists or people with some clue to ID their random stuff? I did look for forums but didn't find anything.

I have this bit of flint which I've long suspected looks a bit like an arrow head, although admittedly a bit of a shit one. Perhaps it's just a random bit of flint.

Also this fragment of glazed pottery which could be from the 1960s, or maybe the 17th century or something?

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you know how when archaeologists take pictures of things there's a ruler beside them to indicate size? perhaps you could do something like that which might assist anyone looking at the pictures.

oh and Epona

e2a: i think you're right about the arrowhead

e2a2: this site might be handy https://www.wyjs.org.uk/archaeology...es/beginner-guides-to-identifying-your-finds/

 

[Sue]

I used to work in a local museum. People used to come in all the time and leave stuff for our archaeologists/curator to look at.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Facebook, there’s several groups

 

[Artaxerxes]

Pottery looks 20th century to me, thick enough you could say it was earlier though, very simple design on it to. The flint just looks like flint, doesn’t look worked

 

[Pickman's model]

Pottery looks 20th century to me, the flint just looks like flint, doesn’t look worked

they had to start somewhere, maybe it's an apprentice's first attempt

 

[platinumsage]

If I look on Google Images for flint arrowhead there’s lots of fine examples of which this clearly isn’t. However, if you search for “microlith” there’s a whole load of apparent crap that is actually not crap.