Following the success of last year's event, the Irish National Heritage Park will bring back their popular flint-knapping workshop on June 25 and 26. Participants will be joined by lithic expert ...

That’s spelt with a ‘k’ and has nothing to do with taking 40 winks. He makes beautiful (and potentially lethal) arrowheads, and fixes them to shafts of ash or hazel with sinew or string. The earliest ...

'Pony' Ashley, the last flint miner active on Lingheath, near Brandon, photographed in the late 1930s. Flint is a very hard black mineral similar in composition to glass, which when worked correctly, ...