On Thursday 14th March a carload of shedders from Whitworth headed two hours South along the M6 in response to an invite from Oswestry Men’s Shed to visit them.
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Month: March 2019
Flint Knapping at The Shed
On the 8th and 15th February we were fortunate enough to be visited by an Archaeologist from Manchester University, John Piprani. John was keen to offer flint knapping sessions to people who wouldn’t normally get the chance to experience and learn more. The earliest flintknapped tools were simple flakes used by Stone Age man for cutting into the hides of animals. These developed over hundreds of thousands of years into more sophisticated tools and weapons. John explained the more recent history of knapping using glass, which has similar properties to…
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