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British archaeologists from Oxfordshire County Museum have identified microliths used by Stone Age people in arrows, spears and harpoons.
John Tyler, a wildlife enthusiast and local volunteer for the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust, who found the five flints at the Sydlings Copse nature reserve, said they were all between 6,000 and 10,000 years old.
"When I picked up the flints I could see the wave-like markings where each one had been struck a bigger lump of flint. I was a bit cautious at first as I didn't want to get my hopes up, so I sent them to the museum and forgot about them until the identification came back," the Oxford Mail quoted Tyler, as saying.
County archaeologist Paul Smith said hunter-gatherers would have used the microliths to hunt deer, wild boar and game fowl.
"It's always exciting to obtain new evidence of Mesolithic activity in Oxfordshire. The flint points were perhaps left at a temporary campsite by a small band of hunters over an extensive territory that might have included the fenland of Otmoor as well as the rich game areas of the Thame and Thames river valleys," Smith said. (ANI)
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