Prehistoric Wirral

📖🌍Happy World Book Day! The book that began it all...
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We are delighted to announce that the keynote speech at the upcoming Lessons From the Past conference (23rd - 24th March 2026), will be a free and publicly accessible talk!

Wirral has a very old history. Some people think the Vikings created and named everything on Wirral, when the reality is it was already inexistence, established in Prehistory.

🌼Spring is in the air as well as the ground. Native Wild Primroses (Primula vulgaris) flowering 😊
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Good to hear, so true of other generations. Years ago people, especially sailors still did. I guess if you grew up knowing such knowledge, it was second nature. Modern humans are not so in tune with the natural world.

🪨🪓Neolithic polished basalt pointed end axehead. Possibly a ceremonial/prestige piece. Discovered in 1916 by a farmer ploughing a field in Bidston. Site is now built upon/urbanised. From the collection of Museum of Liverpool.
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🪨Large Neolithic black flint core. The flake removal is in the style of Central Continental Europe, indicative of the Michelsberg Culture. Evidence of the first farmers migrating from Europe and settling in the interior of Wirral #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Neolithic

Thank you. Very pleased to have found the pieces and share them with others. They are great insights as to how intelligent and creative humans have always been.

That's exactly it! Amazing how the concept has remained in use.

🎨Wooden ochre applicator found with two of the painted plaquettes. Centre carved out to hold liquid ochre applied to the limestone surface, to create the desired lines. Evidence of human ingenuity and creativity in #Neolithic #Wirral #Art #Prehistory prehistoricwirral.com/painted-plaq...

🎨Pleased to share with you some more prehistoric artworks with a motif that is emerging as a significant theme in the everyday life of Neolithic people of Wirral 👀📖👉🏻 prehistoricwirral.com/painted-plaq... #Archaeology #Prehistory #Neolithic #Art #Sculpture #Wirral

Misty morn, Hilbre Island and Middle Eye with Welsh hills in background viewed from Hoylake.
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🪶Cormorant taking flight
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Pyrite - Wikipedia

Thank you, yes, I should really have just used 'pyrite' although it is the most common form, there are some other rarer varieties en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite

🔥I am the fire starter! Two small cones of radiating iron pyrite, essentials in the #Mesolithic fire-making kit of the Early Mesolithic c.10,000-8,000 BC. Struck with a piece of flint to produce sparks and ignite dry bark & grass #FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology #Wirral

🪨A blustery but impromptu walk yesterday led to the discovery of something from the #Mesolithic tool kit in a new place. A backed blade made from fine grey chert, most likely sourced in North Wales, indicative of the Early Mesolithic in #Wirral c.10,000-8,000 BC.
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🐴🧲The things you find when you are not looking for them! Marking the #LunarNewYear of the horse, moving forward with the same energy; bold, graceful, unstoppable🐎Here’s a third of a Post-Medieval iron horseshoe dating to c.1700-1800 AD #YearOfTheHorse #Horses #Archaeology

Monochrome horse heads looking left on a cave wall

May you have the energy of these fabulous Ice Age beasts as you enter the lunar New Year of the Horse! 🦣🐎

Stop them losing their intaglios in the baths. 💍

❤️Love tokens? Two heart shaped lithics. First, polished pink granite, flat on reverse. Second a naturally occurring heart shaped piece of flint-collected for it's symbolic meaning? Age uncertain, Neolithic onwards.
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💚The beauty of nature, clusters of Snowdrops in Wirral park. We are blessed with so many freely available public parks in #Wirral 💚
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Pale Bellied Brent Geese overwintering in Wirral waters.
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That sounds brilliant. The first industrial revolution occurred in the Neolithic with the tool making workshops, and of course the flint mines. Then as now people moved/relocated near raw material sources and industry. Norfolk must be the Prehistory capital of Britain!

Yes, and flint is so beautiful because it preserves so well. It is very rare here in Wirral. The modified flint arrowhead posted today is the only arrowhead made from flint found in 8 years! (Apart from a couple of transverse). So really chuffed with this one.

That's a beauty! Lucky you.

Thank you for sharing them. Roughly what sort of size are they?

No, sorry just showcasing it here. Thank you for asking.

Absolutely! Shows their everyday ingenuity.

🪨Light brown translucent flint hollow base arrowhead 3cmsx2cms. Tip broken and the right dorsal side has retouch where it has been modified into a blade/scraper. Dating to the Late Neolithic c.3,000-2,000 BC.
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