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That's a good way of putting it.

I've been trying to find something out about it but no luck in the usual online places?

How deep were flint mines commonly?...I thought about 12 m was the average, which is still fairly deep given the tools used....so was there any ulterior motive for this being almost 3X the depth?

The bit in the Children and Nash book about pillow mounds being in any way connected with the Iron Age still bothers me. Pillow mounds are intended for rabbit warrens (which also ties in with the southern slopes of the hill still being called The Warren). Rabbits (I seem to recall) were not native to these islands but were imported by the R*mans - or am I making this up? Perhaps Romano-British I suppose.