Find Spot record MDO47820 - Neolithic flints, Portesham

Neolithic flint implements, including an axe, were found in 1894-5 in a swallow hole which had been undermined by quarrying.

Neolithic flint implements including a fine celt, were found "on the steep side of the narrow valley down which runs the road from Winterbourne", on Poundbury Farm, Portesham, in 1894-5. They were in a swallow hole undermined by quarrrying. Presented to Dorset County Museum. (Poundbury Farm not located). <1> A fine greenstone Ne celt was found when digging a drain at Portesham in January 1903. It is 6 3/8ins. long and 2 3/4 ins at its widest. It was exhibited by Dr Colley March at the Field Club meeting along with a fragment of a celt which he had found two years previously in a field between Portesham and Steepleton (2). No further inforamtion was obtained during field investigation (3) The NRHE record describes this find as being from Poundbury Farm at Portesham. This is a mis-reading of the PDNHAS note <1> which refers separately to an axehead from Poundbury Farm. <5>

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