Find Spot record MDO7487 - Mesolithic flint pick found on New Mills Heath, Corfe Castle

A flint pick or hoe, 5ins long with one end broken found in newly ploughed land at SY 95588378, west of the possible barrows (See SY 98 SE 47) on New Mills Heath. <1>

SY 955837. Mesolithic flint pick from New Mills Heath. In Brown Collection. <2>

<1> Brown, P A, 1964, A flint pick from New Mills Heath, Corfe Castle, 117 (Article in serial). SWX3187.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1965, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1964, 117 (Serial). SDO64.

<2> 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 (Monograph). SWX2026.

<3> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 689 (Index). SDO147.

<4> Papworth, M, 1992, Middlebere, Corfe Castle Estate, Dorset. Wessex Region, 17 (Unpublished document). SWX1394.

In 1964 a local archaeologist Mr P.A. Brown (1964 p117) found a flint pick or hoe of Mesolithic date when New Mills Heath was newly ploughed. It was in his private collection in Corfe Castle village but since his death in 1987 it has been stored in Dorchester Museum. The pick measures 13cm long and has one end broken off. Visited 28/10/1987

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456871 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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