flint pieces

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Summary: Waste flint core flakes, retouched - probably for use as cutting or scraping tools, could be mesolithic or neolithic - both found in the primary fill of Ditch I, Cutting Ib, 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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