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As a method for drawing, the closest predecessor to your pencil was silverpoint or leadpoint right until in 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), a significant deposit of graphite was uncovered on the method of gray Knotts within the hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale parish, Cumbria, England.