Find Spot record MDO6108 - Mesolithic flints from Woodcutts Common, Sixpenny Handley

Numerous Mesolithic flint implements, indicating a habitation site, have been found by Martin Green and Barry Lewis on Woodcutts Common in an area centred at ST 966172. The finds included 30 tranchet and non tranchet axes, 25 picks and some Portland and upper Greensand Chert artifacts. Also found were small numbers of Neolithic axe fragments and leaf and transverse arrowheads. The finds are in a private museum at Down Farm (ST 999149).

More Mesolithic flint implements have been found nearby at ST 965174.(1-3)

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

'Woodcutts, Site 2, ST 966172. This site has produced many finds; they include: 1 tranchet axe; 2 picks; 1 pick trimming flake; about 60 retouched or utilised flakes; about 40 core-trimming flakes; a dozen scrapers and about 200 waste flakes. The picks and pick trimming flake are very similar to types from Portland (Proceedings, Vol. 90, pp 191-5).'

<2> White, D A, 1971, Early Man in Cranborne Chase; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO18446.

<3> Council for British Archaeology, 1971, Council for British Archaeology: Group 12 (Wessex) & Group 13 (South West): Archaeological review, 13 (Serial). SDO16812.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209807 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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