{"id":259,"date":"2018-10-15T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/?p=259"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:16:19","slug":"fantastic-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/2018\/10\/15\/fantastic-flint\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Flint Artefact Investigation Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get hands on with history!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-243 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/10\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-1-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"71\" height=\"74\" \/>The<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/fantastic-flints\/\"> Fantastic Flint kit<\/a> <\/strong>contains\u00a0real and replica artefacts of stone tools and materials used for flint knapping in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Ages (c. 8500 BC to c. 500 BC). The kit comes with information about the artefacts and has ideas for activities and where to find out more. Because it is very versatile, the kit can be used at all levels (except for early years&#8217; learners for safety reasons), although the support material is primarily aimed at beginners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To book any of our kits or if you have any questions please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:education@archaeologyscotland.org.uk?subject=Loans\">education@archaeologyscotland.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0with \u2018loans\u2019 in the subject line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in borrowing our other kits:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\">Artefact Investigation Kits<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>There are six Artefact Investigation Kits, containing real and replica artefacts. The kits come with information about the artefacts and have ideas for activities and where to find out more.\u00a0 Because the kits are very versatile, they can be used at all levels, although the support material is primarily aimed at beginners.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\">Iron Age Scotland<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>looks at artefacts, houses and settlements from c. 500 BC to c. 500 AD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\"><strong>Roman Scotland<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(80 AD c. 200 AD) considers the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire.\u00a0 Most of what we know about the Romans in Scotland comes from archaeological, not historical, sources. \u00a0Full description\u00a0here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\"><strong>Viking Scotland<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0discovers what life was like in Scotland during the Scandinavian period (796 AD to mid-1400s AD).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/\"><strong>Industrial Archaeology<\/strong><\/a> has four topics, each with its own set of activities and artefacts: the earth\u2019s natural resources; man made materials; working and living with coal; and taking it outside \u2013 finding out about Industrial Archaeology in your area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learning\/loan-kits\/vikingdiscoverychest\/\">The Viking Discovery Chest<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/b>These replicas and reconstructions have been carefully crafted based on real artefacts. More information on each item is included in the chest, as well as fun facts and activity ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: Archaeology Scotland<\/p>\n<p>Scottish Charity no. SC001723\u00a0 Company no. 262056<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\">www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1016\" src=\"http:\/\/archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/learn-resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Archaeology Scotland 75 years (c) Archaeology Scotland\" width=\"139\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Archaeology-Scotland-CMYK-75yrs-Copy-for-portal-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get hands on with history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,136,153,154,155,157,158,159,160,170,118,185,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-archaeology","category-cfe-sciences","category-cfe-social-studies","category-cfe-technologies","category-cfe-first-level","category-cfe-second-level","category-senior-phase","category-cfe-third-and-fourth-levels","category-history","category-period-stone-age","category-primary","category-users-educators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk\/heritage-resources-portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}