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The main building of West Dean College in Sussex, England is an example of using flint galleting in flint walls. Galleting is mainly used in stone masonry buildings constructed out of sandstone or flint. The technique varies depending on which of these materials is used.
Cissbury Ring is an 84.2-hectare (208-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Worthing in West Sussex. [1] [2] It is owned by the National Trust [3] and is designated a Scheduled monument for its Neolithic flint mine and Iron Age hillfort.
Blackpatch is an archaeological site in West Sussex, England, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the village of Findon and about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Worthing. It is the site of a Neolithic flint mine, and Bronze Age barrows. The site is a scheduled monument. [1]
The flint walls of the churchyard were listed Grade II in 1970. On the north and west sides they are believed to follow the line of the former town walls, the churchyard being in the north-west corner of the walled part of the town, and may contain material from those walls. [ 27 ]
It has chalk grassland on both its south and north slopes, and the lower valley has a finger of brook meadows, with old flint walls and reedy ditches. The south slope and the spur between Halcombe and Piddinghoe have very tall and steep medieval lynchets. The spur’s wooded slope overlooking the Newhaven Road is even steeper and is likely to ...
Elaborate 15th-century flint and limestone flushwork at Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford, Suffolk Flushworked buildings belong to the Perpendicular style of English Gothic architecture . It is characteristic of the external walls of medieval buildings – most of the survivors being churches – in parts of Southern England and especially ...
The walls have multi-coloured, multi-layered brickwork. Coursed flint walls surround the Engineerium. The Engineerium has been described by Brighton historian Clifford Musgrave as an "unusually fine asset" for Brighton and Hove [27] and by fellow historian Ken Fines "a splendid example of Victorian industrial engineering".
A piece of flint 9–10 cm (3.5–3.9 in) long, weighing 171 grams. Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [1] [2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires.