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Manufacture of Gun-Flints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1937

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References

1 District memoir of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, 1879.

2 ANTIQUITY, March 1935, pp. 3856.Google Scholar

3 Professor Henry Balfour has informed the authors of an interesting observation made by him when watching the late Mr Fred Snare at work making gun-flints. He noted that Snare when trimming and removing irregularities from the sides and ‘heels’ of the gun-flint did so with a sideways, ‘shearing’, blow of the knapping hammer.

4 Skertchly’s Memoir, p. 32.

5 Ibid., p. 31 and fig. 19.

6 Ed. Vignard, Les Microburins Tardinoisiens du Sebilien’, CR. Congrès Préhistorique de France X’ Session, Perigueux, 1934.Google Scholar

7 loc. cit.