Scrapers are a common type of flint tool which were used for working wood or hides. They may have been re-cut and re-sharpened many times.

There is evidence of Bronze Age activity at the hillfort at Burrough Hill prior to the more well-known later activity in the Iron Age.

This beautiful axe is made from a type of stone found in the Great Langdale area of the Lake District. Stone axes were exchanged over huge distances in the Neolithic, including from as far away as the Alps. They would have taken many hours to polish smooth and were often sourced from very specific outcrops of rock. They were practical objects but were also valued as status symbols. It would have originally been hafted onto a wooden handle.

Dr Alan Massey has fieldwalked across Leicestershire for many years and has found thousands of worked flints including a large number from the Scalford area.

Kindly loaned by Dr Alan Massey.

Dr Alan Massey has fieldwalked across Leicestershire for many years and has found thousands of worked flints including a large number from the Scalford area.

Kindly loaned by Dr Alan Massey.

Dr Alan Massey has fieldwalked across Leicestershire for many years and has found thousands of worked flints including a large number from the Scalford area.

Kindly loaned by Dr Alan Massey.

Flakes and blades were taken from this piece of flint to create tools.

Kindly loaned by Dr Alan Massey.

Dr Alan Massey has fieldwalked across Leicestershire for many years and has found thousands of worked flints including a large number from the Scalford area.

Kindly loaned by Dr Alan Massey.

The barbs on these arrowheads were designed to make the arrow stay in the flesh of the prey. This would cause the animal to bleed so it could be tracked by hunters. The tang would fit into a wooden shaft.