Find Spot record MDO2900 - Mesolithic finds, West Stafford

A surface scatter of flint and Portland chert tools and waste. The tools included a chert awl, trimmed flakes, and a small fabricator, and were described as being of a Mesolithic aspect.

Stone implements, probably Mesolithic, have been found at SY 721894, West Stafford, by Martin Green and Barry Lewis.

They include two retouched flakes of Portland Chert, an awl of Portland Chert, and a flint fabrictor, side scraper and awl. <1-2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1970, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1969, 173 (Serial). SDO69.

‘West Stafford, ST 721894. No diagnostic artefacts have yet been found, but the finds have a Mesolithic aspect. They include: 2 Portland chert flakes with inverse retouch; 1 Portland chert awl with fine blunting retouch on one side; 1 waste flake, also of Portland chert; a small fabricator; 1 side scraper and another awl in flint.’

<2> Wymer, J J, and Bonsall, C, 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales, with a gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic sites in England and Wales, 75 (Monograph). SWX2026.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454095 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 22 2023 3:31PM