SDO11475 - Kington Magna and Surrounding Areas: A Fieldwalking Survey of the Prehistory (1979-1987); Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

'A later Mesolithic assemblage has been defined, characterised by geometric microliths, in a rare association with an unstratified tufa deposit. The local stone source of river gravel flint and Upper Greensand chert was utilised with the few pieces of black chert coming from the Portland Stone, either from the Island of Portland or the Vale of Wardour. Considerable post-Mesolithic occupation of the surrounding areas on the Corallian escarpment was evident from the artefacts collected, extending through the Earlier and Later Neolithic to the Beaker period. The involvement and exploitation of other geological strata, in a prehistoric context, from the Sherborne area, The Vale of Wardour and elsewhere, has been demonstrated.'