Monument record MDO45016 - Mesolithic flint implements from Swanworth Quarry, Sheepsleights, Worth Matravers

A number of scrapers and flint flakes were found in 1968 by P A Brown near the south perimeter of Swanworth Quarries, Sheepsleights (SY 968782). Two are delicately worked in Portland chert, confirmed by Mrs S Palmer; one is a side and end scraper, the other a sickle-shaped scraper with two small circular depressions, perhaps indication of natural pot-lid fracture. <1>

A convex scraper and a knife, bifacially retouched, were found on the surface of Swanworth Quarry, Worth Matravers. In P A Brown collection. <2>

Four Mesolithic scrapers and another worked piece were found in Swanworth Quarries, Sheepsleights. In P. A. Brown Collection. <3>

<1> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1968, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1967, 145 (Serial). SDO67.

<2> Palmer, S, 1970, The Stone Age Industries of the Isle of Portland Dorset and the Utilisation of Portland Chert as Artefact Material in Southern England (Article in serial). SWX4094.

<3> Wymer, J J, and Bonsall, C, 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites in England and Wales, with a gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic sites in England and Wales, 77 (Monograph). SWX2026.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456475 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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