Find Spot record MDO1542 - Mace head found at Martin's Down, Longbredy

SY57529075. An unfinished hornbleode-dolerite Mesolithic mace-head wad found to the N.E of Long Bredy church on Martin's Down. SW Implement Petrology Survey No: Dorset 105:1392. <1>

Evens, E D, Smith, I F, and Wallis, F S, 1972, The petrological identification of stone implements from South-Western England. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, Serial no Dorset 1392, County no 105 (Article in serial). SDO12419.

In the collection of C J Bailey

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1969, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1968, 165 (Serial). SDO68.

'In 1967 Mr. Robert Maltby found an unfinished mace-head on the surface of one of his fields on Martin's Down, Longbredy. It has been identified by the S.W. Implement Petrology Survey as a hornblende dolerite (Dorset 105, no. 1392). The surface is a highly polished greenish-brown, with a few mica flecks. The ends are roughened. The traditionally mesolithic hour-glass perforation is in this instance incomplete as only one surface has been bored. The dimensions are:- overall length 3.6 inches; elliptical section, at wide end 2.7 inches by 1.5 inches, at narrow end 1.9 inches by 0.9 inches.

The term "mace-head" is used without any implication of function.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 884851 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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