Chert Point

Chert weapons were common across Mesolithic and Neolithic Britain, with arrowheads like these fashioned when sources of flint were scarce. Chert, which sounds like something an American mom would name her third son, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock made mostly of microscopic quartz crystals. Usually dull grey or brown with a waxy, matte surface, a chert arrowhead is as dense and brittle as Ricky Gervais, fracturing into sharp, curved flakes like a bowl of lethal Frosties. This arrowhead, like all arrowheads, can be sold to the Torn City museum, which makes a change, since it’s usually the British digging up someone else’s treasure to ship back home.