SDO46 - A Palaeolith from Sherborne. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 68

Description of a palaeolithic flint implement discovered during grave digging at Lenthay cemetery, Sherborne during 1928. Mr. C.E. Bean aquired the palaeolith and presented it to Dorset County Museum in 1945. The implement was thin, subtriangular and skillfully shaped from a large flake through secondary flaking along all edges and on both faces. All edges were sharp and both faces displayed tertiary flaking or re-touch. One side was notched, probably through use and not design. Professor H. Breuil examined the artefact and pronounced it Levallois V or VI from the beginning of the last Wurm glaciation. He also suggested that the patina suggested the implement had been recovered from clay as aopposed to gravel.