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Summary: 30 assorted flint flakes, many retouched, possibly used as cutting and scraping tools, smaller items are probably Mesolithic, found in the topsoil of Cutting 1, from a small field known as Oliver's Hill Field, Cherhill, Wiltshire, excavated by I F Smith and J G Evans on behalf of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1967.

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