I was walking in a sand quarry yesterday, where they had scoured the sand out to the bedrock, leaving a central 'cliff' of sand and layers of flint nodules about 40' high. Rabbits had dug their way down from above and out of the wall, scattering debris everywhere. About 4' from the top, there was a pronounced dark brown patch about 3' wide by 6" deep, and at the foot of the cliff were hundreds of small flint nodules, yellowish in colour normally, but all stained black, looking very much like they'd been in a fire.

Now before I call the local societies and museums, is there any way of verifying that what I saw is what I think it is? It lies 250m west of Chestnuts, on the only bit of real-life topsoil left to the west of the barrow. Traces of Mesolithic occupation was found in the field nearer to the barrow about 150 yards away during the 1957 excavation work, so the siting is right, but is it what I thought it was, and how, without dragging someone out to have a look, can I tell?