Find Spot record MDO5397 - Bronze Age Palstave, Warren Park Farm, Alderholt

Implements from Mesolithic to Bronze Age have been found by Morley Hewitt in arable fields south of the farm … Mr Hewitt also found a Middle Bronze Age palstave at SU 12481152. All these are preserved in the Morley Hewitt collection at Fordingbridge Town Hall. <1>

A Middle Bronze Age palstave was found as a surface find at Warren Park Farm, Alderholt, by Mr Morley Hewitt in 1938. <2>

(Centred SU122114) A number of flint and stone implements have been discovered in the locality of Warren Park Farm, otherwise known as Lodge Farm. <3>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1950, Annotated Record Map Rec. 6 (J B Calkin 1950), 16 August 1950 (Map). SWX2815.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1952, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951, 64 (Serial). SDO51.

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 30-JUN-69 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<3.1> Hewitt, Morley, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: Morley Hewitt FRICS FAI, Old Manor House, Fordingbridge, Hampshire (Verbal communication). SDO17762.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 217585 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 4 2022 4:07PM