Worked flints and stone tools:
Stone and flint were made into a wide variety of different tools during the prehistoric period including arrow heads, knives, scrapers and axes. These tools were used for practical tasks like clearing land, cutting wood, and hunting. Creating these objects was a highly skilled task, and as such some tools are also thought to have additional symbolic significance.
Many of the flint tools found on National Trust land have been obtained as chance finds (e.g. one or two pieces found lying on the ground surface by people out walking), but other flints have been found by archaeologists systematically walking across ploughed fields or undertaking excavations.
Fine examples of Neolithic polished stone axes have been found in Shropshire at Wheathill Farm, Uckington Farm and Upper Brompton Farm, Attingham. At Midsummer Camp, in the Malvern Hills, several flint tools were also recovered during archaeological excavations of the hillfort during the 1920s; these items included a Neolithic axe and a flint scraper.