Monument record BRD 354 - Flint quarry, Elvedon Lodge

Flint quarry for gunflint production. `Elvedon Lodge. The farm known as Elvedon Lodge is situated on the road from Brandon to Elvedon... A large pit is open close by in the boulder clay, which clay is used as a top-dressing for the sandy land. In the clay large flints are found, and it is very significant of the local origin of that deposit, that the flints are not cracked or weathered, and are suitable for knapping. Southwell (Mr N J, Brandon knapper of 1870s, illustrated in workshop in (S1)) found toppings, upper-crusts, wall-stone and floor-stone, and used many of them. Had these stones travelled far, or been much exposed, they must have become weathered and unfit for knapping, but although striated they are as sound as ever...' (S1).
Location of the large pit unknown - probably one of four shown on 1:2500 OS map/s (S2).

Formerly recorded as BRD MISC