TRURO  MUSEUM  -  FLINTS  FROM  CROUSA  DOWNS

Mesolithic pebble tools and flints

Close-up of pebble tools

Flints, some with worked edges

Small cores and small blades 

 For those interested in reading more on the subject of local flints there is the booklet written by Edith Dowson in 1971, entitled "Flint Finds from the Lizard".  She refers to an earlier work by Charles Thomas written in 1955, entitled "Flint Industries from the Lizard".

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My thanks are due to Margaret Hunt, 
who has kindly shared her knowledge of flints.		 Photographs and text
by Peter Wood 2002