Find Spot record MDO7781 - Hammerstone from Cow Leas, Lytchett Matravers

A hammer stone found in 1951 or 1952 and presented to the Dorset County Museum by the finder. Of flint and around 2½ inches in diameter, with the surface pitted by use.

A: SY 94489805. Found, and presented to the Dorset Co.Mus. by Miss V. Chandler. A flint hammer-stone ploughed up in the Cow Leas, east of Dullar Farm buildings, near the south-east corner of the reservoir.... The hammer-stone is a slightly flattened ball, diameter c.2 1/2", and the whole surface except for a small portion of the original flaked surface is pitted by use. Dorset County Museum No. 1952.65. <1>

Miss Chandler confirmed the siting of the hammer-stone mentioned in Auth.1 and pointed out the site of the more recent find on the
map; the area is now under grass. <2>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1952, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1951, 115 (Serial). SDO51.

‘(c) Flint hammer-stone (1952.65), ploughed up in the Cow Leas, E. of Dullar Farm buildings, near the S.E. corner of the reservoir, at about nat. grid. Ref. SY(30)/94489805. The hammer-stone is a slightly flattened ball, diam. c. 2½ ins., and the whole of the surface, except for a very small portion of the original flaked surface, is pitted by use.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 24-NOV-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Chandler, V M, Miss V M Chandler, Dullar Farm, Lytchett Matravers (Verbal communication). SDO20067.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457305 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 17 2023 2:22PM