Monument record MDO6863 - Flint scatter, Whitecroft, Arrowsmith Road, Poole

A scatter of late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints was collected from Whitecroft, Arrowsmith Road, Poole. An assemblage of 24 artefacts was collected. Other flakes were also present but not collected. The assemblage included a leaf arrowhead and a transverse arrowhead, 11 scrapers and 11 flakes. <1>

SZ 0308 9765. A fairly substantial late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age site is indicated by a group of marked flints collected at Whitecroft, Arrowsmith Rd, Poole. One arrowhead is a leaf type 3B, while another is British oblique type, on current evidence dated to 2000-1500 BC. <2>

National Record of the Historic Environment, 888364 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1982, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1981, 117 (Serial). SDO81.

A fairly substantial Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (settlement?) site is indicated by a group of worked flints colleced by Mr. R. Hemley at Whitecroft, Arrowsmith Road. The finds consist of 2 arrowheads, 11 scrapers and 11 flakes. One arrowhead is of leaf type 3B (Stephen Green, 1980, 1, Fig. 28) whilst the other is of British oblique type (Stephen Green 1980, 1 Fig. 38e). Current dating evidence suggests that these arrowheads could be contemporary in the period c. 2000-1500BC. The scrapers are strictly classified as short end scrapers although they are nearly circular and are almost clasifiable as disc scrapers. Other flakes were also persent but were not collected. On the basis of the artefacts to flake ratios of other istes an assemblage of well over 1000 flints would be indicated if all flakes had been reained. Collecting is to continue and the finds will be deposited at Poole Museums.
K. Jarvis

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