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Learn more about flint wall construction and knapped flint, including key care and repair issues, and where to find experienced help or training. The SPAB is frequently asked about flintwork. This article takes the opportunity to review some of the key issues the care and repair of walls constructed from this curious material.
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Oct 11, 2017 · Flint is an incredibly resilient building material that can survive for thousands of years, as evidenced by the Roman Fort of Burgh Castle in Norfolk. It is also resistant to scratching and other forms of surface damage that softer stones can be prone to, weathering in particular.
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Flint is one of three closely related forms of compact crystalline silica which have been used in building, and the most common. It is found in the top part of the middle and throughout the upper division of the Chalk geological formation. It is closely related to quartz, chalcedony, chert and jasper. The hardness of these materials is well known: ...
The first extensive exploitation of flint for building is Roman, predominantly but not exclusively in the core work of composite walls. Where flints were abundant, as along the south and east coasts, they were used in prodigious quantities, laced with levelling and bonding courses of square bricks. Saxon and Norman churches also made extensive use ...
The important legacy of flint construction presents something of a challenge to modern owners and conservators. Too often, repairs seem to be carried out by the uninitiated (and are sometimes specified by them too). The tough, intractable, siliceous nature of flint is the source of its great durability; but this durability is confined to individual...
This is the subtitle for Traditional Building Craft Skills, a recently published report commissioned by English Heritage, the National Heritage Training Group, and CITB. The report identified on a region by region basis the percentage of contractors and sole traders having at least one employee with a specific craft skill, one of which was 'flint k...
Sep 30, 2022 · Flint stone wall construction is a method of building walls with flint stones. The purpose of this type of wall is to keep out animals and intruders. It is also used for decoration, because it has an attractive appearance due to its regular shape and coloration.
Flints are usually laid with mortar, in a manner similar to that used when building with bricks. The way in which flints are arranged in walling is called ‘bonding’; rather like a series of teeth, each flint has a root tailing into the wall. Walls can be built with either irregularly shaped field flints and smooth beach or ‘cobble’ flints.
Flint breaks and chips into sharp-edged pieces, making it useful in constructing a variety of cutting tools, such as knife blades and scrapers. The use of flint to make stone tools dates back more than three million
