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  • Collection: Encyclopaedia of the North East

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Set of fleams, three small steel knife blades with a tongue, used to bleed horses. Enclosed in a pen-knife shaped case, made from horn.

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Fleams. Three sets of metal strips with pointed blades projecting horizontally, which fold out from a handle like a pen knife.

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Fleerishes. Five buckle shaped pieces of steel, some with decorative spirals.
Fleerishes, or strikelights, listed together in Reid's 1912 catalogue.

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Flint arrowheads. Clockwise from upper middle: a large leaf shaped arrowhead, a barbed triangular arrowhead with a shaft, a diamond shaped arrowhead, a tiny barbed triangular arrowhead with a shaft, a tiny triangular arrowhead with a shaft, a small leaf shaped arrowhead, and a long barbed triangular arrowhead.

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Flint arrowheads. Four leaf shaped arrowheads in orange and grey flint.

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Flint arrowheads. Left to right: a grey barbed triangular arrowhead with a shaft, a large red leaf shaped arrowhead, a dark grey barbed triangular arrowhead missing one barb.

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Flint axe and adze heads. Made of flint with sharpened edges, the adze rough and rectangular, the axe smooth and tapered.

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Flint core. A large dull orange piece of flint about nine inches long, with smooth faces where smaller pieces have been chipped off.

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Flint cores. Three pieces of flint, one white, one deep red, the other orange, all with pieces chipped off them.

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Flint knives. Clockwise from top left: A large light grey semi-circular knife, a small orange rectangular knife sharpened on both sides, a large dark grey pointed oval shaped knife, a small black rounded oval knife, and a small orange semi-circular knife.

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