ENDNOTES

1. Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Sheffield. (back to text)

2. I have recently discovered that Elizabeth Calender and Ron Cowell at the Liverpool Museum are studying Mesolithic sites from Merseyside at which black chert is found. This chert is almost certainly from the nearby Flintshire series in North Wales (see also Cowell and Innes 1994: 22). A discussion of the use of Prestatyn chert can be found in Quinnell and Blockley (1994). (back to text)

3. Of course, the practices and contacts that took Wirral flint to Derbyshire may have returned chert to the Cheshire Plain. (back to text)

4. This work has arisen from the need to distinguish Earlier from Later Mesolithic where the literature makes no such distinction. Many of the collections have been re-analysed by the author, but the basic source material is as follows: Barnatt, et al. (in prep.) (White Peak and East Moors); Radley (1968) (Southern Pennines); Littleborough Archaeological Society archive Manchester Sites and Monuments Record (Central Pennines); Radley and Marshall (1965) (South Yorkshire); and Hart (1981). (back to text)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Danny Hind is in the third year of PhD research in the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include the landscapes and technology of hunter-gatherers and small-scale farmers. He may be reached by e. mail on <D.Hind@sheffield.ac.uk>.

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