Buildings

As the South of England is not well-off for hard building-stones, many of the older houses are faced with flint. loads more waffle

The image below shows a section of a flint-faced wall at Fort Widley. The inner-rubble is of chalk, the mortar was made from lime from chalk, and the facing of flint.
The bricks will also have been made from local clay, on the north side of the hill.

Fltins can be seen on the outer walls of many homes today, from old pre-brick buildings, to the pebble-dashed houses of the 1950's, and even in modern builders' ready-made panels of flint embedded in mortar on concrete slabs"

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