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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Mountains made of flint? Yep, that'd pull me up quite sharply too. Flint occurs in layers of lumpy nodules in chalk, and sometimes in almost complete sheets. But a mountain of flint just can't happen.
There's a neolithic flint mine near me - great site - one of the mines has been excavated, and you can go down the main shaft.
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It worked really well for atmosphere, but it was just the wrong kind of departure from reality.
The flint mine was interesting. I've read about it long ago, and I htink they also exported flint out of the country. I tracked down
a photo from a Danish flint mine (Google books link)