FLINT tools dating back 10,000 years delighted museum staff in Huddersfield.
The tools were among strange artefacts brought into the Tolson Museum, in Ravensknowle Park, Moldgreen, during a public finds session.
About 24 people took in fossils, pipes, pottery and pieces of flint they had unearthed on their holidays or in the back garden.
The items were scrutinised by John Rumsby, collections manager at the museum, with the help of Anna Marshall, finds liaison officer for the West Yorkshire Archaeology Service.
Mr Rumsby said: "It was a very useful exercise and seemed to work out quite well. We are planning another at Tolson and may possibly do more at our other museums."
The flints brought to the museum were used by Mesolithic people in the Middle Stone Age and were found on the hills around Holme Moss.
Mr Rumsby said: "The flints were the most exciting finds although the smallest. They would be about 10,000 years-old and would have been used by the first people to inhabit this area."
Flint is not native to Huddersfield and would have been imported from the Yorkshire coast.
Mr Rumsby said they would have been used for hunting and skinning deer and other animals at a time when Holme Moss was forested.
The next public finds day will be on Sunday May 23 between 2pm and 4pm.
