PRN 64420 During excavation of a gas pipeline header trench, a peat layer was revealed approximately 40cm below the stripped surface. 108 worked flints and 3 burnt natural flints were recovered from a field in Dunston parish. All (with one or two possible exceptions) appear to be early Neolithic in date. A variety of tools were recovered from the site. These included endscrapers, micro-denticulates and retouched flakes and blades. Leaf-shaped arrowheads were probably manufactured on the site. A broken leaf arrow appears lop-sided and thus may have been unfinished. Similarly a flake shows traces of of the fact that it was removed from a thin, invasively flaked piece, probably a arrowhead, but also a laurel leaf. Burins also appear to have been manufactured on site. In addition to a burin, a primary burin manufacturing spall, deriving from a separate tool, was also recovered. Axes may also have been manufactured and/or maintained on the site: as a possible thinning flake was recovered. This flake is of opaque/blue flint deriving from the Wolds, in contrast to the rest of the assemblage, which was manufactured on translucent brown and black flints. Another interesting piece is a long blade which has both been used as an end scraper and serrated. Traces on the dorsal surface of this piece indicate that it was manufactured from a polished axe which was reused as a core. The braod range of tool types and the unspecialised nature of the assemblage indicate that it was probably manufactured in the course of a variety of domestic activities. The site was a place where certain tools were manufactured, some to be used at the site, the others for tasks elsewhere in the landscape.{1}{2} The flint scatter was concentrated in a discrete zone, at the interface between the peat and silts of the River Witham and the sands and gravels leading up to higher ground towards the west and south.{3}