which are sharpened tips made by shaping rocks like chert, flint or jasper. The special weapons, named after the New Mexico ...

"I've always been fascinated by the idea of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on Dartmoor and the tantalising clues that these tiny pieces of flint or chert offer us about how communities lived and made ...

Many of the finds were flakes of flint and chert - a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock - but rudimentary tools were also discovered, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Set high up in an estate of houses of mixed styles, Chert (named after a type of flint) overlooked the sea. Built of wood, concrete and glass, the building comprised two stories – the lower housed ...