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Thornwick Bay, North Yorkshire, Flint Rockhounding.
I've just got back from a few days visiting my family in North Yorkshire (England).
As with most trips back home I make my mother take me off to a random location for a walk and a hunt for rocks. Normally we don't get anything of substance. But this time I wanted to go to a site I knew from childhood produced flint.
Flamborough head is a chalk outcrop, that breaks into the north sea. It looks a little like a smaller version of the white cliffs of Dover. And most of the bays are either tourist attractions, or totally inaccessible. The main bay produces no flint, The one slightly north has washed up flint and some in the chalk. So I wanted to push into a less visited beach and just have a walk about and see what we could see.
Unfortunately I was visiting for a funeral and didn't have space in my bags to take a camera. So I'll have to use stock photo's for the location.
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Picture © Dr Patty McAlpin
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The flint from here looks to be decent enough. It's large enough to cut stone from, And plentiful enough that with a decent walk you should be able to find a few good sizes crack free lumps. Slightly translucent, Mid grey in tone. I'll know more once I have the first rock split as to inclusions and quality.
I've picked up 4 good sized blocks. 3 of them are been dropped off on Sunday for me, I did bring one back on the train and I'll put pictures up later today when I get the camera sorted.