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Description: | A new nineteenth-century gunflint production site has been discovered. platform gunflints were produced in Brandon and Icklingham, Suffolk, for the British army from the late eighteenth-century. Certainly these were the main production sites between about 1800 and 1850. Other than at these sites there was very little production, due to the specialised nature of gunflint manufacture, so finding a large group of gunflint production waste at Freckenham is important. This new production site was indicated by the discovery of several hundred fragments of manufacturing waste as well as finished gunflints. Its presence could be due to a Brandon knapper perhaps living in Freckenham, making gunflints for the locals, but it does indicate a wider network of production sites than previously thought. More historical research is now needed to discover why production was taking place there and who was doing it. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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