Find Spot record MDO5474 - Mesolithic implements found at Beaucroft Field, Corfe Mullen

One pick, ten cores, nineteen scrapers and about two hundred blades or flakes and about seventeen other flints.

Several rich Mesolithic sites have been located in the Corfe Mullen area by Mr. J. Stonborough, a local resident.

Corfe Mullen general. Four picks, three scrapers, two gravers and two other flints are now in the British Museum; one axe
is in Christchurch Museum; five blades or flakes are in Poole Museum.

SY 975975. Beaucroft Field. One pick, ten cores, 19 scrapers, about 200 blades or flakes and 17 other flints, in the Stonborough
Collection.

Eight minor findspots, centred SY 985980. One sharpening flake, two cores, three scrapers and 16 other flints. <1-3>

<1> Prehistoric Society, 1970, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 36, 107 (Serial). SWX2745.

<2> Palmer, S, 1978, Mesolithic cultures of Britain, 137-8 (Monograph). SWX1704.

<3> 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, 68-9 (Monograph). SWX2026.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457210 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 10 2023 3:10PM