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Hob, (and all others interested in Great Langdale in the Neolithic and Bronze Age)

I searched for a few books tonight and came up with:-

http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=langdale&submit=Begin+Search&new_used=*&world_english=on&currency=GBP&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

Scroll down and you'll find some thin, but informative and interesting publications. I haven't got copies of them but intend to eventually.

Cheers!

There's some good stuff in there. I've not read much on the subject of the axes, but it's piqued my interest since seeing flakes of andesite that look like by products of roughing out. They have that 'conchoidal' (?) thing going on that you see with flint.

I'm especially interested in the sites/methods used in finishing off the axes. Were they up the top, by the cave, or down the bottom, by the beck?

I hear Richard Bradley's axe trade book discusses the issue. I must get a copy.