A Gun-flint Factory Site in South Wilts.

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In a newly-cultivated field south of Knighton Wood in the parish of Broadchalk are immense quantities of flint artifacts similar to those described in the Antiquaries Journal, v, 158. They were brought to my notice by Col. A. D. Troup, who told me that until recently this piece of land had lain idle probably for centuries. He stated that when the ground was broken up large masses of chipped flints, lying almost in heaps, were conspicuous even from a distance. Even now, after much ‘cleaning’ of the soil, they are so thick over an area of approximately 400 yards by 100 that it is impossible to walk there without treading on four or five with each step. A few years ago I was told that somewhere in the woods near by there were pits the bottoms of which were covered by broken flints, and I had made a note to that effect on my map.