Editing Microlith (section)

===England===
There are many examples of possible tools from Mesolithic deposits in England. Possibly the best known is a microlith from [[Star Carr]] in [[Yorkshire]] that retains residues of resin, probably used to fix it to the tip of a projectile. Recent excavations have found other examples. Archeologists at the Risby Warren V site in [[Lincolnshire]] have uncovered a row of eight triangular microliths that are equidistantly aligned along a dark stain indicating organic remains (possibly the wood from an arrow shaft). Another clear indication is from the Readycon Dene site in [[West Yorkshire]], where 35 microliths appear to be associated with a single projectile. In Urra Moor, [[North Yorkshire]], 25 microliths give the appearance of being related to one another, due to the extreme regularity and symmetry of their arrangement in the ground.<ref name="myers">{{Cite book
| author = Myers, Andrew
| chapter = Reliable and mantainable technological strategies in the Mesolithic of mainland Britain
| title = Time, energy and stone tools: New directions in Archaeology (edited by Robin Torrence)
| year = 1989
| publisher = Cambridge University Press
| location = [[Cambridge]]
| isbn = 0-521-25350-0
| pages = 78&ndash;91
}}</ref>

The study of English and European artifacts in general has revealed that projectiles were made with a widely variable number of microliths: in ''Tværmose'' there was only one, in ''Loshult'' there were two (one for the tip and the other as a fin),<ref>{{Cite book
| author = Petersson, M.
| title = Microlithen als Pfeilspitzen. Ein Fund aus dem Lilla-Loshult Moor: Ksp. Loshult, Skane.
| work = Meddelanden fram Lunds Universitets
| year = 1951
| publisher = Historika Museum
| id = (Pagies 123&ndash;137
}}</ref> in White Hassocks, in [[West Yorkshire]], more than 40 have been found together; the [[average]] is between 6 and 18 pieces for each projectile.<ref name="myers"/>