FA - Flintstone Architecture

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FA - Flintstone Architecture: i s associated with certain geological regions with Cretaceous (chalk) outcrops where one could find intercalations of bands of flintstone which are used as building material.
Flint was used for the manufacture of flint tools during the Stone Age as it splits into thin, sharp splinters called flakes or blades (depending on the shape) when struck by another hard object (such as a hammerstone made of another material). This process is referred to as knapping.

Flint, knapped or unknapped, has been used since antiquity (for example at the Late Roman fort of Burgh Castle in Norfolk) up to the present day as a material for building stone walls, using lime mortar, and often combined with other available stone or brick rubble. It was most common in parts of southern England, where no good building stone was available locally, and brick-making not widespread until the later Middle Ages.

It is also associated with Cretaceous outcrops on the Continent of Europe, in France and elsewhere.