Thesaurus Term/Concept: FLINT MINE

Identifier 69346
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A site where flint seams within chalk have been exploited by digging deep vertical shafts, often with horizontal galleries radiating out from the base. Use for Neolithic examples and for Post Medieval gunflint industry.

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Context Record
Monument Type MSF10028 Area of "Old gun flint industries" defined on 6 inch record map by Rainbird Clarke. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF21987 Area of flint mines, Wangford Warren; compartment 4562 (Pmed) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37264 Area of former quarrying, probably post medieval (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37361 Area of possible flint mining or other extraction (Monument)
Monument Type MSF35139 Area of possible flint mining or other extraction and/or Second World War weapons pits (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24411 Area of possible post medieval flint mines, Compartment 4016, Santon Downham (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37362 Area of probable post medieval flint mining or other extraction (Monument)
Monument Type MSF17200 Compartment 2059 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF21351 Elms Covert (Monument)
Monument Type MSF21352 Elms Covert (Monument)
Monument Type MSF9885 Elms Plantation (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37433 Extensive area of trackways and possible flint mining, all of probable post medieval to modern date (Monument)
Monument Type MSF16965 Forest Blocks 2006 & 2014 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF10208 Icklingham Breck (Monument)
Monument Type MSF9917 Icklingham Breck; Seven Trees Breck; The Chalks (Monument)
Monument Type MSF9884 Lingheath Flint Mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14797 Napthens Belt (Monument)
Monument Type MSF10031 Possible location of post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37432 Possible post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37424 Possible post medieval flint mines and/or Second World War military activity to north of Ling Heath (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37443 Possible site of post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF16967 Post medieval flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14794 Post Medieval flint mine and artefact scatter of manufacturing debris and workd objects. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14792 Post Medieval flint mine and artefact scatter of manufacturing debris and worked objects. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14793 Post Medieval flint mine and artefact scatter of manufacturing debris and worked objects. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14541 Post Medieval flint mine and industrial site. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14705 Post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14706 Post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF16970 Post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF16966 Post medieval flint mines in Forest Block 3098 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF16964 Post medieval flint mines in Mount Plantation (Monument)
Monument Type MSF16962 Post medieval flint mines, Mount Plantation (Forest Block 3057) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF15570 Post Medieval flint working site. (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24389 Post medieval gravel pit and/or flint mine, Compartment 4099 (Monument)
Monument Type MSF12373 Probable post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF14020 Probable post medieval flint mines at Stonepits Plantation (Marlpit Brin) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37427 Site of possible mound (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37009 Site of possible post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37661 Site of possible post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37662 Site of possible post medieval flint mines (Monument)
Monument Type MSF37286 Small, undated pit, possibly a post medieval flint mine (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7599 Taflin's Quarry (PMed) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF7600 Taflin's Quarry (Un) (Monument)
Monument Type MSF24403 Two flint mine shafts, Compartment 4563d, Wangford (Monument)