Find Spot record MDO7571 - Prehistoric finds, Corfe Castle

Surface finds of flint scrapers, cores and flakes found by P.A. Brown, circa 1956, at 'D'-SY 973809; 'E'-SY 977808 and 'F'-SY 979806. In finder's possession. <1>

'E'-SY 97708082. Half of a polished Neolithic axehead of yellow flint, a flint pick, 5 ins long, and a leaf-shaped Neolithic arrowhead were found by P.A. Brown in 1964. <2>

'E'-SY 977808. Mesolithic tranchet axe and microburin found at Harman's Cross. In Brown Collection. <3>

A barb-and-tanged arrowhead and other worked flints were found at SY97758075. These remain with the finder, PA Brown. <5>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1957, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1956, 75-76 (Serial). SDO56.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1965, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1964, 117-8 (Serial). SDO64.

‘P. A. Brown has half of a polished Neolithic axe-head of yellow flint, a flint pick or hoe about 5ins. long, and a finely flaked leaf-shaped Neolithic arrow-head 1.2ins. long but with untrimmed bulb of percussion, found at SY 97708082 near flints recorded in Proceedings, Vol. 78 (1956), p. 75.’

<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 (Monograph). SWX2026.

<4> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 389 (Index). SDO147.

<5> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1983, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1982, 170 (Serial). SDO82.

‘In 1977 a tang-barb arrow-head and other worked flint were found at SY 97758705. For earlier discoveries see Dorset Proceedings, Vol. 86 (1964), pp. 117-118. All material remains with the finder.’

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456869 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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