Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

“Our Milton Keynes team have unearthed this PERFECT Neolithic leaf-shaped ... small flakes from the larger flint piece until it was shaped, archaeologists said. Knapping “would have taken ...

Such is her devotion to flint that she herself wouldn’t be caught knapping ... who coined the words “Palaeolithic” and “Neolithic”, introduced the Ancient Monuments Protection ...