The archaeological and geochemical implications of trace element distributions in some English, Dutch and Belgian Flints

The possibility of tracing the raw material sources of archaeological flints by elemental analysis has, in recent years, been investigated by a number of groups of workers. Characterising the composition of source material has usually been carried out, for reasons of economy, by analysing a relatively small number of samples, typically 10-20. To examine the distribution at mine sites in more detail and to determine the likely chemical location of some trace elements in flint, two sources were more extensively sampled.