The Breckland Heath has always been interfered with by ancient flint workers and farmers, the military, the rabbits and the rabbit warreners. |
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When flint was reached the miners cut a series of radiating galleries out from the shaft to follow the seam. |
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The two most common kinds of glass used for making achromats are crown glass and flint glass. |
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These are cornerstones, flint stones, millstones, limestone, and milestones. |
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The French Marine would show the students how to load and fire a flintlock, and how to make a fire with flint and steel. |
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This goblet of about the same period is made of a type of soda glass soon to be outmoded by the new English flint glass. |
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She gathered some rocks together, and began trying to make a spark with the flint. |
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Taking the flint and steel from his satchel, he cast sparks upon the torches, and they soon erupted into full flame. |
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For hundreds of years, firearms depended upon fiery sparks from the forced impact of flint upon steel. |
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I pull out my lighter, watch the flint spark to flame, and hold the outer edge of the bark an inch above the brightness. |
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Sparks arose from the flint and firestone, and soon the torch became ablaze. |
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From his saddle bags Draco took two torches and some flint and steel to light them. |
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I found boxes of cartridges, another hand-gun, tools for shoeing horses and a flint and steel for lighting fires. |
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He shows Richard how to use a flint and steel and how to use hand-made sulphur matches called spunks. |
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The white to gray flint bed, 2.5 meters thick, rests on gray fossiliferous Vanport Limestone. |
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Like the first, it includes some world-class localities, such as gypsum crystals from Eilsworth and flint from Flint Ridge. |
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At the base of the Reading Formation are several metres of brown clay-rich sand with glauconite, flint pebbles and oyster shells. |
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Visiting relatives, dignitaries, or pilgrims would return home bearing cache blades, cores, and bladelets made from Flint Ridge flint. |
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The flint consisted of cores, chippings and unfinished tools, indicating that tools were made on site. |
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It is a shale-hosted flint, passing northward into marine shale and southward into marine clay ironstone. |
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The rich material culture includes flint and bone projectile points, fishing equipment, and decorated bone and stone. |
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At Teviec in Brittany a male burial had two flint points embedded in his spine. |
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Each hollow is the partly infilled remains of an extraction pit or mine shaft cut through the chalk to reach seams of flint below. |
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A similar situation exists with the Mississippian figurines of flint clay that are often misidentified as bauxite or pipestone. |
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There's popcorn for popping, flint corn for grinding into cornmeal, sweet corn for corn on the cob, and Indian corn for harvest celebrations. |
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More gravel than flint, it has a clean, lime-tinged wash and a zesty finish. |
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A thin marine clay ironstone with a patchy distribution overlies the flint. |
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Calculations suggest that 1,000 tons of overburden was removed to create a single shaft, which yielded approximately 8 tons of nodular flint. |
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It passes upwards into almost flat-lying white coccolith chalk with parallel lines of black flint nodules. |
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She determined which end was the handle by touch, and by using Flora's flint she managed to strike a spark and light the torch. |
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Our preliminary work has shown it to be highly accurate in identifying such pipestones as catlinite, Sterling pipestone, and Missouri flint clay. |
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One moment Arto sings samba gentle as a nostalgic caress, the next his guitar is like flint grinding on flint. |
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Flint Ridge flint forms the cap rock of the Flint Ridge highlands because of its resistance to weathering. |
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This is the view from the north caponier along the curtain wall, made of flint reinforced with brick. |
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These shelves held torches, candles, flint, a few swords, and other oddments that could prove useful. |
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Indeed, when hafted lithic tools were broken or became worn out, trips to flint or chert sources would have been necessary. |
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For example, the team recovered six larger stones known as cores, from which flint tools used for butchering the elephant were chipped. |
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The buhrstone flint is not included in DeRegnaucourt and Georgiady's typology. |
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This is whole-grain white flint cornmeal, which would go rancid and buggy in your cupboard faster than cheese. |
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He tried sparking a fire with some dry grass and twigs and a piece of flint he had found but was unsuccessful. |
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The other recorded UMRV occurrences of flint clay are isolated fragments from carved figures or mostly unworked scraps. |
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Over 120 pieces of flint waste show that Neanderthals had made butchery tools on site to carve up the mammoths. |
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The Arms of the Provinces and Sees of England are carved on bondstones which bind the flint facing to the wall-core behind. |
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The caves at Creswell Crags are known to have been occupied in palaeolithic times because hunters left behind bone and flint stone tools. |
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Distinctive long flint blades lay where they had been made around 11,500 BC, in a cold landscape swept by herds of reindeer and wild horse. |
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I turned it in my hand, gave the flint wheel a turn and the flame came to life. |
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Dating from the 18th century, it has flint walls, a solid-fuel stove and a bird table on the lawn. |
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It is built of local flint with stone dressings and comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, porch, a north transeptal chapel and a western tower. |
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Small worked flint blades known as microliths were perhaps the barbs of spears and harpoons with wooden shafts. |
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The floor was about 4.5 feet below ground and shards of pottery and flint were found, which will be given to the National Museum. |
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Neither had iron tools and instead used such hard stones as flint, jade, dolerite, basalt, and serpentine to make axes, knives, and chisels. |
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They found a grave pit containing fragments of bones which may be human, as well as Mesolithic and late Neolithic flint tools and pottery. |
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I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand. |
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Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox, and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark. |
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He didn't have any flint or tinder, but he gathered wood and used his magic to light a fire. |
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The flint axehead used had been left at the barrow, its battered and damaged cutting edge precisely fitting some of the cutmarks on the wood. |
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The grave also contained offerings such as ochre and flint tools, axes, and seashells. |
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The Ice Age was survived largely due to the ability to skin with fine flint scrapers and preserve pelts and hides. |
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I heard the scrape of a dry flint and another man, very regal-looking, materialized. |
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The geology at Grimes Graves comprises a number of flint layers lying below sands and clays and interspersed between chalk. |
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With the skeletons were Upper Palaeolithic flint tools of Aurignacian type and signs of decorative art in the form of pierced sea shells. |
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The sparks generated by striking steel against a flint provide the activation energy to initiate combustion in this Bunsen burner. |
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Built of flint and rubble with dressings of Binstead stone, the aisleless apsidal church has only one entrance. |
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Other materials found during the digs were a flint knife, zoomorphic penannular brooch, decorated bone comb, bronze age pottery and arrowheads. |
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At the moment, it is thought either to be a Neolithic axe rough-out or the work of a modern flint knapper. |
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The history of the knife is an intriguing one dating hack to simple flint tools knapped by prehistoric man. |
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The 'Barlow lens', a modification of this telescope lens, is a negative achromatic combination of flint glass and crown glass. |
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The vast space enclosed by the ramparts have allowed the occupants to farm the area, with lynchets spreading across the camp and encroaching on the flint mines to the west. |
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Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert. |
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Pottery, flint tools, arrowheads, and quernstones were found. |
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He also had a framed backpack, a utility belt containing tools, a quiver containing 14 arrows, a flint dagger and most amazing of all, a copper axe. |
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The barn has a tiled roof, is weatherboarded, and has a flint plinth. |
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By around 5,000 BC a focus had developed at the confluence of the Nene and a small tributary, where people stopped to light fires, knap flint, and perform domestic tasks. |
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Ohio flint, which is among the finest flint in North America, was worked extensively by prehistoric Indians and is widely sought for knapping and use in the lapidary trade. |
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She grabbed the flint out of the pocket of her trousers and slipped it into the small pocket in the skirt of her dress after giving her sister a hug. |
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The pit also contained some 25 flint scrapers, and two stone axeheads whose distinctive rock identifies them as petrological group XX, from nearby Charnwood Forest. |
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Excavations in 1870 revealed a primary inhumation burial accompanied by a food vessel, a flint scraper, and a flint knife suggesting a date slightly later than the henges. |
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They included a pair of gold earrings, three copper knives, five beakers, two sets of flint tools, two stone archer's wristguards and a number of arrowheads. |
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Excavated in 1911, the primary burial dates to about 2500 BC and comprised a crouched inhumation in a cist accompanied by a beaker, bone pin, and flint tools. |
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North of Cahokia, Missouri flint clay occurs most often in twelfth-century contexts as unworked fragments or fragmentary portions of pipes or figurines. |
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This development has one building which looks rather like a replica oast house, other houses have interesting cobbles and flint, and all in all each house looks different. |
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The area would have been too boggy to make flint tools and uninhabitable for humans so experts believe this means the carcass was butchered for meat. |
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They also had a store of flint which they were able to make fires with. |
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Sited on Salisbury Plain in the United Kingdom, the midden mound contains discrete layer upon layer of flint, charcoal, bones, pottery and excrement. |
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Among the exhibits are flint tools made by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. |
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There is a great variety of materials in the older buildings but a particular characteristic is the use of Chilmark Stone and a chequered pattern of clunch and napped flint. |
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Living on the Isle of Wight with a life-long interest in prehistory I have spent many hours field-walking and have a substantial collection of flint tools and flakes. |
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The artifacts recovered from these excavations will give a clearer picture of the technology and particularly their production and use of flint and chert. |
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Fieldwalking revealed a wide range of lithic materials used for cutting tools, including local gravel, Pennine chert and flint from the Wolds and coast. |
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Ester and Edna spent some time in the dark grove gathering wood, and Rachel sparked a flint over dried leaves before the altar, and soon they created a bright little fire. |
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Misch metal is used to make the flint in cigarette lighters. |
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Dom flicked the striker with his thumb which rolled against the flint, it then made a spark that ignited the fuel it contained, creating a small flame. |
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Blown of colorless flint glass and embellished with cutting and engraving, the Madison decanters are the earliest documented objects from the manufactory. |
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While the decoration of Bakewell, Page and Bakewell's finest glass was indeed highly accomplished, the company experienced some difficulties with their flint glass formula. |
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The discovery of achromatic lenses made of flint and crown glass heralded a new era for telescope makers, but the same did not apply to the microscope. |
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Note that the magnifying power of the crown glass is twice that of the flint in this combination, yielding a net power about half that of the crown element alone. |
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The extensive Late Neolithic shaft mines in north Jutland and Scania testify to the demand for top-quality Senonian flint. |
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Coastal erosion is indeed eating away at this rock where Mesolithic or middle Stone Age microlith flint tools have been found. |
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This small microlith is made of blackish brown flint blade knapped from creataceous flint. |
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This week the subject is the beautifully crafted flint of the Mesolithic period, known as microliths. |
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Blanc demonstrated in front of a committee of scientists that his muskets could be fitted with flint locks picked at random from a pile of parts. |
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A hand axe is made by chipping stone, generally flint, to form a bifacial edge, or wedge. |
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Perhaps the first example of a human made device designed to manage power is the hand axe, made by chipping flint to form a wedge. |
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Stone now described himself as a County Magistrate and a flint glass manufacturer. |
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Made in flint glass, the bottle showcases the gold colour of the oil while protecting its organoleptic features. |
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Glass is produced as containers in the 88 ml to 1,000 ml range and they come as flint glass and coloured glass. |
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Berk Company, has introduced the Ronda Collection of flint glass bottles in both 15mm crimp and Europa finishes. |
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Like the earlier flint glass examples, they're a very useful size, being 5-6 inches high and holding about half a pint. |
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It had several breweries and a flint glassworks in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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It is possible that this building was used as a house to make simple tools such as bone needles or flint axes. |
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Stone walls are usually made of local materials varying from limestone and flint to granite and sandstone. |
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Industrial flint mining begins, such as that at Cissbury and Grimes Graves, along with evidence of long distance trade. |
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The possibility that groups also travelled to meet and exchange goods or sent out dedicated expeditions to source flint has also been suggested. |
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Various flint and bone fragments, as well as Roman coins, were found in this area, attesting to the early settlements in the region. |
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It produced more refined flint tools but also made use of bone, antler, shell, amber, animal teeth, and mammoth ivory. |
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This period also saw Levallois flint tools introduced, possibly by humans arriving from Africa. |
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Prehistoric finds in Hornsea include a polished Neolithic stone axehead, Neolithic or Bronze Age flints, and Bronze Age flint arrowhead. |
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Eventually the farmer put his hand inside, and pulled out a small piece of flint, shaped in the form of a heart. |
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About a year later, his young son found the flint in the house, and took it outside to play with it. |
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Then the boy went out onto the moor to look for something else to play with, and he dropped the flint as he went along. |
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The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce. |
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The discovery of flint is noteworthy as it is not found naturally in the area. |
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There is some scattered evidence of Late Mesolithic to Bronze Age activity in Ely such as Neolithic flint tools, a Bronze Age axe and spearhead. |
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The chalk has many fossils, and bands of flint occur throughout the formation. |
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Several of the men show great dexterity in shaping stones into implements, a process known as stone or flint knapping. |
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A fully automatic Batch Plant feeds one Heavy oil fired, end-fired regenerative furnace to melt soda lime flint and green glass. |
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Langdale was previously known as Langdene meaning 'far away wooded valley' and referring to its distance along the flint route from Whitley Bay. |
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The chalk has been quarried for the manufacture of cement, and flint for local building material. |
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This layer contained charcoal traces and a previously unknown microlithic flint tool industry characterized by crescent-shaped lunates. |
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They were first extracted for fabrication into flint axes in the Neolithic period, then for knapping into flintlocks. |
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Either way, a whistle, just a flint of music, rang out that Sunday. |
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One notable archaeological site in this region is the Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes. |
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Pressing a flint against the disk produced a shower of sparks and dim illumination. |
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There is evidence of the exchange of obsidian and flint during the stone age. |
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The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn. |
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He was supplied with darts sacred to Huitzilopochtli, which came with wooden tips and flint tops. |
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Newcastle also became a glass producer with a reputation for brilliant flint glass. |
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Most indigenous cultures were limited to weapons of wood, flint and obsidian. |
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When Stone Age humans first took a sliver of flint to tip the spear, it was the first example of applying technology to improve the weapon. |
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The Solutrean may be seen as a transitory stage between the flint implements of the Mousterian and the bone implements of the Magdalenian epochs. |
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This method permitted the working of delicate slivers of flint to make light projectiles and even elaborate barbed and tanged arrowheads. |
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The industry would have produced denticulate stone tools and also a distinctive flint knife with a single cutting edge and a blunt, curved back. |
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In Britain, there were numerous small quarries in downland areas where flint was removed for local use, for example. |
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Eleven undiagnosable flakes removed from small flint beach pebbles have been uncovered there. |
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The downlands of Ballard Down are formed of chalk with some bands of flint, and were formed approximately 66 million years ago. |
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Such bell pits may also mark the sites of ancient flint mines, where the prime object was to remove flint nodules for stone tool manufacture. |
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Other trenches have revealed chipped wood flakes, flint knapping flakes and even wound fibres that appear to have been used as string. |
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Flintknappers are craftsmen who use sharp tools to reduce flintstone to flint tool. |
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Their materials were mainly wood, with bone, antler and flint for functions requiring harder surfaces. |
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A Palaeolithic flint tool found in West Sedgemoor is the earliest indication of human presence on the Somerset Levels. |
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Exhibits include original flint tools and human remains excavated from the caves. |
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Numerous Acheulean flint tools and remains of animals dating to around 500,000 years ago were found at the site. |
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In 2000, a black flint handaxe, dating to between 600,000 and 800,000 years ago, was found by a man walking on the beach. |
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In addition, flint becomes brittle at low temperatures and may not have functioned as a tool. |
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The soil beneath it, a mixture of alluvium and clay with some flint and chalk rubble, has experienced erosion for many years. |
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For example, high quality flint found in northern France and southern England were used to set fire and break rock. |
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It also held grave goods left with the human remains, such as flint tools, cinerary urns, or flower tributes. |
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Very good knappable flint can be recovered from beaches but again test first to decide what is suitable. |
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Throughout the centuries the weir has been used to power corn, fulling, needle, snuff and flint mills. |
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The builders placed the bones of deer and oxen in the bottom of the ditch, as well as some worked flint tools. |
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The final upper surface was made of concrete or well smoothed and fitted flint. |
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There are many examples of flint dolmens in the historical villages of Johfiyeh and Natifah in northern Jordan. |
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Pick made of deerhorn, used by flint miners in the New Stone Age. |
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In 2005 flint tools 700,000 years old were discovered at Pakefield, and in 2010 flint tools at least 800,000 years old were discovered at Happisburgh. |
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The chalk strata are frequently interspersed with layers of flint nodules which apparently replaced chalk and infilled pore spaces early in the diagenetic history. |
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The thunderstones of one generation become the flint axes of the next. |
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Historically speaking, some of the flint tools found in the grotto point to inhabitants from the Middle Palaeolithic age, also known as the Mousterian culture. |
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The first signs of activity in the region of Mons are found at Spiennes, where some of the best flint tools in Europe were found dating from the Neolithic period. |
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As well as an abundant supply of game and edible plants, the river gravels were rich in flint deposits, which early humans would have found an invaluable resource. |
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A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation. |
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Neolithic people in the British Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges, flint mines and cursus monuments. |
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And the grounds boast a cave in which,in 1897, were found the remains of flint tools and the bones of various animals such as mammoth and woolly rhino. |
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The introductory phase of the manufacture and use of flint daggers, around 2350 BC, must all in all be characterised as a period of social change. |
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In areas of Southern England using flint architecture, elaborate flushwork decoration in flint and ashlar was used, especially in the wool churches of East Anglia. |
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Technological advances included significant developments in flint tool manufacturing, with industries based on fine blades rather than simpler and shorter flakes. |
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It is created from a flint flake and looks like a large scraper. |
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Flint was probably the most widely used, simply because it was available from numerous flint mines in the downlands, such as Grimes Graves, Cissbury and Spiennes. |
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Woodworking tools such as adzes appear in the archaeological record, although some flint blade types remained similar to their Palaeolithic predecessors. |
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This warmer time period lasted from around 424,000 until 374,000 years ago and saw the Clactonian flint tool industry develop at sites such as Swanscombe in Kent. |
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Such a technology makes much more efficient use of available materials like flint, although required greater skill in manufacturing the small flakes. |
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He described the Thebes Formation as massive to laminated limestone with flint bands or nodules and marl rich with Nummulites and planktonic foraminifera. |
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Larger settlements like Jericho arose along salt and flint trade routes. |
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Bean held court in an outhouse, the prisoner seated on a bale of flint hides. Bean was not only judge but prosecutor, as well as counsel for the defense. |
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The earliest evidence of occupation in the river valley can be dated to the Mesolithic and Neolithic Ages with the discovery of flint tools and arrowheads. |
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The finds include, among other things, deeply denticulated sickle blades knapped from flint which were used for harvesting, as well as arrow heads and stone implements. |
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The perfect fusion of elegance and functionality make the flint glass rectangular-shaped Hera bottle a splendid suitor for your next perfume or cologne packaging product. |
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Neolithic flint mines such as Cissbury, burial mounds such as the Devil's Jumps and Devil's Humps, and hill forts like Chanctonbury Ring are strong features in the landscape. |
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The flint assemblage is also typical of the Early Bronze Age, especially in microlithic lunates, the tabular scrapers, and the microlithic drills. |
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In carbonate based rocks such as limestone or chalk, chert or flint concretions are common, while terrestrial sandstones can have iron concretions. |
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Demonstrations covering bronze axe casting, iron smelting, flint knapping, coil pots and wood turning have been arranged by outreach officer Steve Thurston. |
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The flint used was Senonian flint originating from southeastern Denmark, the same type from which the artefacts from Svartskylle and Kverrestad were made. |
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The trip includes presentations by specialists in American Indian rock art, archeological method and theory, flint knapping, ethnobotany and on-site archeological field work. |
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