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two canvas plus three leather pads above the knee,
together with a wooden wedge below his heel.
Ashley used a one-tined pick like an antler
(see figure 2) and the section of the mine-shaft
(about 35 feet deep)' is illustrated in figure 1,
which shows the different layers and their
colloquial names.
Knapping: A three to four pound hammer (figure 3)
was used to split ("quartering") the mined flints:
then a two to two and a half pound hammer (figure
4) roughly flaked the "quarters", then a ground-
down file (figure 5) made into the knapping hammer,
was used and it needed sharpening every two weeks.
All the hammers must be tough and NOT too-highly