On the Manufacture of Gun-flints: The Methods of Excavating for Flint, the Age of Palæolithic Man, and the Connexion Between Neolithic Art and the Gun-flint Trade |
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| Title | On the Manufacture of Gun-flints: The Methods of Excavating for Flint, the Age of Palæolithic Man, and the Connexion Between Neolithic Art and the Gun-flint Trade Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain: England and Wales Memoirs of the geological survey, England and Wales |
| Author | Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly |
| Publisher | H.M. Stationery Office, 1879 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jul 17, 2009 |
| Length | 80 pages |
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