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Restoration at Gt Witchingham, Norfolk.

Restoration to masonry and flintwork

Building contractors would benefit by sending one or more respected employees to train as architectural flint knappers. The essential technologies can be taught to trainees within the space of just one day, and if trainees then put these newly learned skills into practice on a regular basis, then the standard of both restoration and new work will improve nation-wide.

A new property at Beyton

Random-knapped flint applied to a newly built property

Skillfully applied flint facings can give new properties a real touch of class.

25 tonnes of random-knapped flint.

25 tonnes of random-knapped flint

Knapped flint obtained from suppliers can be quite expensive, so it would make good sense for builders to have staff especially trained to do this work. 25 tonnes of random-knapped flint will cover an area of 250 square metres.

One to one architectural flint knapping workshop

Norman Ashton

Norman, pictured here at a quarry, is coming to terms with the striking angles required for the production of architectural flints.

Four to one architectural flint knapping workshop

Mark Spriddell, Adam Spriddell, Leon Spriddell & Darren Spriddell

Mark, Adam, Leon and Darren are seen here having their first experience at producing random knapped flints at a quarry. "They all did extremely well".

One to one architectural flintknapping workshop

Andrew Hunter - (Fred)

Fred produced these fine pieces of flushwork after a successful morning at the quarry making randon knapped flints.

Two to one architectural flintknapping workshop

Jim Castle & Dale Rollings

Jim & Dale had no trouble at all with their production of flushwork and random faced flints, and they even had time to have a go at handaxes.