Monument record MDO18450 - Middle Farm, Dorchester; Mesolithic flint

A small quantity of probable Late Mesolithic flint was recovered from the Wessex Archaeology fieldwalking and excavation at Middle Farm, Dorchester in 1990 and 1992. The flint included a scalene triangle microlith found in a possibly natural feature, a backed bladelet in an Early Neolithic pit and a possible pick or tranchet axe recovered from fieldwalking. This flint is widely scattered, but suggests some limited Late Mesolithic activity in the immediate vicinity. It is important as diagnostically Mesolithic material is virtually unknown in the environs of Dorchester.

A small quantity of probable Late Mesolithic flint was recovered from the Wessex Archaeology fieldwalking and excavation at Middle Farm, Dorchester in 1990 and 1992 (1). The flint included a scalene triangle microlith found in a possibly natural feature in Trench 2, a backed bladelet in Early Neolithic pit 1518 in Trench 4 and a possible pick or tranchet axe recovered from fieldwalking. This flint is widely scattered, but suggests some limited Late Mesolithic activity in the immediate vicinity. It is important as diagnostically Mesolithic material is virtually unknown in the environs of Dorchester.

<1> Butterworth, C , and Gibson, C, 2004, Neolithic Pits and a Bronze Age Field System at Middle Farm, Dorchester. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 21 (Article in serial). SDO9654.

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