Find Spot record MDO30125 - Mesolithic worked flint, Holnest

Worked flint, including blades and cores, found in the vicinity of Holnest Park. The finds are reported as being Mesolithic in date, but this is not certain. In the Joseph Fowler collection at Dorset Museum.

Note: 'Holnest House' is presumed to be Holnest Park.

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1956, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1955, 148 (Serial). SDO55.

'… 19 flakes and 6 small cores from ploughland at the back of Holnest House (ST 655090) which, Mr Fowler tells me, is on a local Corallian sandy outcrop amidst the Oxford Clay …'

<2> Ross, M S, 1987, Kington Magna and Surrounding Areas: A Fieldwalking Survey of the Prehistory (1979-1987); Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 94-95 (Article in serial). SDO11475.

'5. Sherborne … Possible Mesolithic blades, one trimmed, and six small cores came from the environs of Holnest House (ST 655090, not shown on Fig. 3). …'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887251 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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