Description

Summary: 52 fragments of flint, from Bishops Cannings G76, Wiltshire.

Research results

A small assemblage of 52 flakes of debitage, with a few showing signs of retouch, excavated by Paul Ashbee from Beckhampton Road Long Barrow in 1964. Unfortunately, any note indicating the original context of these flints had been lost, however the original publication of the excavations in 1979 describes four retouched and 48 unutilised flakes as being found amongst material eroded from the long barrow mound, away from the proximal end. It is likely that these are the flints refered to. If the flints did indeed originate in the long barrow mound they would most liely be of neolithic date.