Find Spot record MDO5664 - Neolithic axehead and possible hone stone, Gussage St Michael

The butt end of a Neolithic polished stone axehead was found in 1964, whilst a bank probably associated with an Iron Age/Romano-British settlement near to the Cursus was being bulldozed. A polished felsite pebble found nearby was identified as a possible hone stone. The axehead is in the possession of Martin Green of Down Farm, Woodcutts. [NB Moore 1969 locates the findspot to ST 989140. This is actually some distance from both the Cursus and the nearest earthworks]

The butt end of a Neolithic polished stone axe of Group VII was found in 1964 at ST 99121413 <3>, whilst a bank was being bulldozed. The bank, probably associated with the Iron Age/Romano-British settlement (ST 91 SE 3), is near to the Cursus (SU 01 NW 91). The axe is in the possession of Martin Green of Down Arm, Woodcutts. A polished felsite pebble, perhaps a prehistoric hone stone, was found nearby. <2>

The butt end of a polished stone axe and possible hone stone were found when a bank was being bulldozed. The bank may have been associated with the adjacent Iron Age/Romano-British settlement. The axe has been identified as a Group VII axe from Graig Lwyd in North Wales.

Serial no. Dorset 1406, County no. 110. Worked pebble of devitrified rhyolite. In the collection of T A Green. <4>

<1> Farrar, R A H (ed ), 1966, Archaeological Notes and News for 1965; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1965 (Article in serial). SDO10107.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1969, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1968, 163-4 (Serial). SDO68.

Moore, CN. Neolithic and Roman finds from Gussage Cowdown, Gussage St Michael.

<3> Council for British Archaeology, 1969, Council for British Archaeology: Groups 12 and 13: Archaeological Review, 23 (Serial). SWX4377.

<4> Evens, E D, Smith, I F and Wallis, F S, 1972, The petrological identification of stone implements from South-Western England. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (Article in serial). SDO12419.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210107 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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