Not in the mood for Nelson today, weather grey but warm, i headed out to Balfour to spend the day searching for flakes.
Lots of flakes, not a lot of worthwhile other finds:
a flake in the sand, got me excited, it was big, but - on pulling it out - just a flake.
The days take. Bottom left - a knife - flaked on one side only, above it a couple of worked flakes, a few of which may have been small arrowheads. In the center next column a worked bit of chert on both sides, but no sharp edges, presumably abandoned. The big pieces are "blanks", larger pieces of chert from which arrowheads & points would be knocked off as needed. And to the right, lots of flakes, many still razor sharp. Some show a bit of serrating along a particular edge, so were probably used for scraping, the rest, the natural detritus of tool creation.