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THERE is an old man living here, in Bournemouth, who years ago was employed in re-laying a part of the Poole Road, some little distance within the western boundary of the borough. He says that he helped to put down a quantity of refuse from the gas-works mixed up with flints, &c.—for this was before the days when the Poole Road began to be mended with granite. Now it so happened that this very man was employed to dig lip and remove the surface of the road in preparation for the laying down of the tram lines, and of the wood pavement with which the whole road is now covered; and he says that he helped to dig up the very stuff which years ago he had helped to put down, and that this old road material was carted off to the new road then in course of construction upon the common and along the top of the cliff close by this part of the Poole Road. The flints, he says, came out blue, and are the blue flints now to be seen in patches upon this new road along the west sea-front.
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SHARPE, J. Blue Flints at Bournemouth. Nature 71, 176 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071176b0
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