2010 : B3098 looking east at Flinty Knapp

Image: © Maurice Pullin Taken: 5 Mar 2010

The following suggests flint tools were being made in the stone age on a production line basis. If not here, at Belchalwell near Blandford Forum. "The majority of the flints we have found are neolithic in origin, with a few probably from the early bronze age. Most come from a small area of approx. 4 acres, within which hundreds of sherds of knapped black flint can be found on the surface of the ploughed soil, and the finds area has a very definite edge, beyond which all trace of worked flint disappears. Oddly, very few identifiable tools have come from here though, leading us to believe that this was perhaps a site where flint tools were produced rather than used. The few tools found here have been of very poor quality, often unfinished, and frequently the flint has been flawed." The above was copied from: http://www.belchalwell.org.uk/artifacts-flint.asp

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