Find Spot record MWX403 - Neolithic stone implements, Portland

Neolithic finds from Portland include a chert hammerstone, a stone axe (in Dorset County Museum, Dorchester) and a polished flint axe (in Portland Museum).

A flint hammerstone found in the Isle of PORTLAND. Actually of chert, 3ins in diameter. (1)

A ball of chert 3ins in diameter, slightly flattened on two opposite sides. (2).

An axe of hornblende schist from PORTLAND in the DORCHESTER MUSEUM. (3)

A polished axe of white flint approx. 7" long, with the sides fashioned so that they are at right angles to the long axis of the width, or flattened. The axe was found in the Isle of Portland, and is in the EVANS collection. (4)

In the PORTLAND museum is a patinated polished flint axe which is unlabelled but which probably came from PORTLAND. None of these axes were identified and no information concerning them was obtained during field investigation. One of them may be duplicated on DORSET 58SE. (5)

<1> Buckman, J, 1868, Ancient remains found on the Isle of Portland, p47 (Article in serial). SWX1984.

<1> Evans, J, 1872, The Ancient Stone Implements Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, 224 (Monograph). SWX8014.

<2> Buckman, J, 1868, Ancient remains found on the Isle of Portland, p47-48 (Article in serial). SWX1984.

<3> Third Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-western Group of Museums and Art Galleries on the Petrological Determination of Stone Axes, 1951 Page(s) 140 (Unspecified Type). SWX2090.

<4> Evans, J, 1872, The Ancient Stone Implements Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, 101 (Monograph). SWX8014.

<5> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 08-JUN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451793 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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