diff --git a/NEWS-wip-vector-cleanup.txt b/NEWS-wip-vector-cleanup.txt
index 84b5c7a79..e7e4ea169 100644
--- a/NEWS-wip-vector-cleanup.txt
+++ b/NEWS-wip-vector-cleanup.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ Use scm_is_vector instead.
 
 If you were including these headers directly for any reason, just include libguile.h instead.
 
+** scm_from_contiguous_typed_array has been removed.
+
+This function was undocumented. Instead, use scm_make_typed_array and
+the array handle functions to copy data to the new array.
+
 
 * Backward incompatible changes
 
diff --git a/libguile/arrays.c b/libguile/arrays.c
index 95bc6e1b2..e6af6295e 100644
--- a/libguile/arrays.c
+++ b/libguile/arrays.c
@@ -604,7 +604,6 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_make_typed_array, "make-typed-array", 2, 0, 1,
   SCM ra;
 
   ra = scm_i_shap2ra (bounds);
-  SCM_SET_ARRAY_CONTIGUOUS_FLAG (ra);
   s = SCM_I_ARRAY_DIMS (ra);
   k = SCM_I_ARRAY_NDIM (ra);
 
@@ -637,29 +636,6 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_make_array, "make-array", 1, 0, 1,
 }
 #undef FUNC_NAME
 
-/* see scm_from_contiguous_array */
-static void
-scm_i_ra_set_contp (SCM ra)
-{
-  size_t k = SCM_I_ARRAY_NDIM (ra);
-  if (k)
-    {
-      ssize_t inc = SCM_I_ARRAY_DIMS (ra)[k - 1].inc;
-      while (k--)
-	{
-	  if (inc != SCM_I_ARRAY_DIMS (ra)[k].inc)
-	    {
-	      SCM_CLR_ARRAY_CONTIGUOUS_FLAG (ra);
-	      return;
-	    }
-	  inc *= (SCM_I_ARRAY_DIMS (ra)[k].ubnd
-		  - SCM_I_ARRAY_DIMS (ra)[k].lbnd + 1);
-	}
-    }
-  SCM_SET_ARRAY_CONTIGUOUS_FLAG (ra);
-}
-
-
 SCM_DEFINE (scm_make_shared_array, "make-shared-array", 2, 0, 1,
            (SCM oldra, SCM mapfunc, SCM dims),
 	    "@code{make-shared-array} can be used to create shared subarrays\n"
@@ -772,7 +748,6 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_make_shared_array, "make-shared-array", 2, 0, 1,
 	return scm_make_generalized_vector (scm_array_type (ra), SCM_INUM0,
                                             SCM_UNDEFINED);
     }
-  scm_i_ra_set_contp (ra);
   return ra;
 }
 #undef FUNC_NAME
@@ -1043,7 +1018,6 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_transpose_array, "transpose-array", 1, 0, 1,
 	}
       if (ndim > 0)
 	SCM_MISC_ERROR ("bad argument list", SCM_EOL);
-      scm_i_ra_set_contp (res);
       return res;
     }
 }
diff --git a/libguile/arrays.h b/libguile/arrays.h
index 0d2f334b0..0d2eae2a0 100644
--- a/libguile/arrays.h
+++ b/libguile/arrays.h
@@ -89,16 +89,8 @@ SCM_API SCM scm_array_rank (SCM ra);
 
 /* internal. */
 
-/* see scm_from_contiguous_array  for these three */
-#define SCM_I_ARRAY_FLAG_CONTIGUOUS (1 << 0)  
-#define SCM_SET_ARRAY_CONTIGUOUS_FLAG(x) \
-  (SCM_SET_CELL_WORD_0 ((x), SCM_CELL_WORD_0 (x) | (SCM_I_ARRAY_FLAG_CONTIGUOUS << 16)))
-#define SCM_CLR_ARRAY_CONTIGUOUS_FLAG(x) \
-  (SCM_SET_CELL_WORD_0 ((x), SCM_CELL_WORD_0 (x) & ~(SCM_I_ARRAY_FLAG_CONTIGUOUS << 16)))
-
 #define SCM_I_ARRAYP(a)	    SCM_TYP16_PREDICATE (scm_tc7_array, a)
 #define SCM_I_ARRAY_NDIM(x)  ((size_t) (SCM_CELL_WORD_0 (x)>>17))
-#define SCM_I_ARRAY_CONTP(x) (SCM_CELL_WORD_0 (x) & (SCM_I_ARRAY_FLAG_CONTIGUOUS << 16))
 
 #define SCM_I_ARRAY_V(a)    SCM_CELL_OBJECT_1 (a)
 #define SCM_I_ARRAY_BASE(a) ((size_t) SCM_CELL_WORD_2 (a))