Find Spot record MDO2976 - Bronze Age flint tool, Whitcombe

A flint side scraper found in 1985 by a visitor to the deserted medieval village. A concentration of similar material - flint tools and flint working waste of early to middle Bronze Age date – was found in an adjacent field during fieldwalking in 1978-9 by students of the Dorset Institute of Higher Education.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1986, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1985, 153 (Serial). SDO85.

‘FLINTS FROM WHITCOMBE (SY717883). A flint side-scraper was found at Whitcombe Deserted Medieval Village by a visitor in July 1985. A number of flints, including tools and waste flakes, were found in the field on the other side of the road, west of the DMV area, at SY714883), in 1978-79 by students of DIHE. All this material seems to be of early/middle bronze age date.
The material, together with notes and measurements, is deposited in Dorset County Museum. We are grateful to Mr S. Fox, who made the 1985 find, for drawing it to our attention.’

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