A Chipping-floor at Orleigh Court, North Devon

Extract

The chipping-floor and its associated artifacts, situated at Orleigh Court in the parish of Buckland Brewer, lie about four miles south-west of Bideford in North Devon (fig. i), where an area of about three-quarters of a square mile is covered by a gravel deposit of doubtful age. The gravel has a foxy red colour and, in its upper portion, is characterized by an abundance of flint nodules, of a type which could have been derived only from the Chalk, the nearest representative of which is in Dorset, over sixty miles to the south-east. The artifacts come from a field lying north-west of the Rookery and a little above the 200-ft. contour line (fig. 2).