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rangerrebew

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Storytelling flints and the original Oxen Ford: Oxford flood scheme archaeology begins
Pete Hughes


THIS tiny piece of flint is barely an inch long, but it tells an incredible story.

A stone flake reveals that 6,000 years ago, for just a few short minutes, a tribe of Mesolithic hunters stopped in this field in South Hinksey to sharpen their tools.

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15549517.Storytelling_flints_and_the_original_Oxen_Ford__flood_scheme_archaeology_begins/
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