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A Chipping-floor at Orleigh Court, North Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1937

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References

1 Clark, J. G. D., The Mesolithic Age in Britain, p. 19.Google Scholar