Doggerland

Perhaps you've heard about Doggerland...

Thanks to some beach finds we got really interested.

In January we started the hunt and visited Monster.

It was windy, rainy and very cold but we found lots of fossil bits and pieces...

In May I found an artefact at Maasvlakte 2, our first visit to this area...

I knew it was something special, a so called "spits".

Measuring 6 cm probably a bow and arrow tip.

The idea someone held this piece way back... was mind-blowing.

The expert opinion : a harpoon tip approximately 10.000 years old.

If it had been up to me, we would have started visiting every weekend (smile)

In August, our second visit, the kenderman found this tooth on the same beach.

Due to the expert is a molar from a red or giant deer...

We were both eager to visit the Doggerland exhibition at RMO in Leiden.

a reconstruction of neanderthaler Krijn

I must admit I'm really obsessed by "spitsen" or "tips" now (big smile).

We dis see some other objects in the museum but we'll go back...

Magic from the bronze age... two swords from Ommerschans and Jutphaas.

Dating 1350-1500 BC

Two giant blades, too heavy, no handle, not even sharpened.

No functional weapons, only objects of beauty?

Artifact

Last monday we bought a new artifact for our livingroom.

Things like these balance the new and sleek design in our home :-)

I think the mix of all sorts of things creates your personal interior.

This artifact is a so called 'threshing-sledge' (in Dutch 'dorsslede') and it was used to thresh the grain.

The wholes in the wood are filled with lots of firestones. Flint was used for the manufacture of flint tools during the Stone Age as it splits into thin, sharp spinters called flakes or blades.
This sledge was pulled by an ox or mule while someone sat on top of it.

Now our hunt for the missing stones starts ;-)