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Flint deposits around Cork ??

  • 23-10-2008 01:56PM
    #1
    stylie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Not sure if this is the right area to post this, but I thought if any group of people would know it would be ye. I'm just wondering does anybody know of any flint deposits around Cork county ?? some place where they might just be lying around like you sometimes see in chalk beds in Dover (might be wrong about that)...
    I have been through a few quarries around Cork but I never seem to spot any flint :confused:

    cheers for any help


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  • #2
    Aelfric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Aelfric


    Cork is the wrong place for flint really. The nearest Chalk beds are about 14 miles off the SW coast of Kerry.

    Flint has predominantly been imported from Antrim or Wicklow, though there are some deposits along the southern beaches of Wexford, near Kilmore Quay etc.

    Other than that, it's poor quality pebble flint found in and around rivers, and occasionally found on beaches. Most of the lithics from my sites in Meath have been of pebble flint.


  • #3
    stylie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭stylie


    Thanks for the info, I hardly guessed as much as I have never spotted flint in my travels around Cork county


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