Find Spot record MDO7557 - Prehistoric flint flakes and tool, Corfe Castle

Flakes of flint and a flint tool described as a pick-head or hoe were found in a field next to the path to Little Woolgarston. The pick was identified as Neolithic.

Flint implements and flakes were found near Harman's Cross circa 1955: … 'C'-SY 97558098. Flakes and a probable Neolithic 'pick head', 4 1/2 ins. long (now in Dorset County Museum). <1>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955, 127 (Serial). SDO55.

‘Flint sites between Afflington Farm and Little Woolgarston, Corfe Castle … (c ) Flakes and a flint pick-head or hoe in a field (97558098) adjoining the path to Little Woolgarston. The pick-head, 4½ ins. Long and with a natural break at the butt end with some cortex remaining, has a sharp cutting edge. It resembles examples form Neolithic levels at Maiden Castle. It has been given to the Museum.’

<2> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 388 (Index). SDO147.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456869 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 10 2023 11:36AM