Find Spot record MDO47588 - Bronze Age finds from Hambledon Hill, Child Okeford

A perforated stone hammer has been found in the vicinity of Hambledon Hill. A Middle Bronze Age looped and socketed spearhead was found on the surface at Hambledon Hill.

ST 8412. A perforated hammer found in the locality of Hambledon Hill. Now in the collection of DCD Ryder. <1>

Also a Middle Bronze Age spearhead, looped and socketed and 5.6 inches long was found on the surface at Hambledon Hill by W Stevens. Now in the Dorset County Museum. (Accession No 1945-13-1. <2>

A Middle or Late Bronze Age palstave, with upper part missing and wide blade, and a looped and socketed spearhead, were chance finds made on Hambledon Hill fort. In Dorset County Museum. (No date of finds given). <3>

<1> Prehistoric Society, 1951, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 17, 154 (Serial). SDO17614.

<2> Dorset County Museum, Dorset County Museum Accessions Book (Unpublished document). SWX1315.

<3> Pearce, S, 1976, The middle and late Bronze Age metalwork of the South-West and its relationship to settlement. Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society 34, 29 (Article in serial). SDO20387.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206245 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206287 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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