Find Spot record MDO7565 - Mesolithic pick found near Chapman's Pool, Hill Bottom, Corfe Castle

A crescentic implement of chert, 5.1 ins long, found at `Bottom near Chapman's Pool. In British Museum Acc. No. 1918.11.2. <1>

No further information regarding the find spot of this implement but the land from Hill Bottom, south along the valley to Chapman's Pool (centred ST 961777) is known locally as 'The Bottom'. <2>

Mesolithic pick of coarse chert, 5.1 ins long with curved point found at Chapman's Pool. In British Museum. <3>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1949, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (J B Calkin 1949) (Map). SWX2587.

<2> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 21-JUL-52 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3> Prehistoric Society, 1970, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 36, 107 (Serial). SWX2745.

<4> 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, 68 (Monograph). SWX2026.

<5> Papworth, M D J, Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 1983, Isle of Purbeck Survey, IOP 685 (Index). SDO147.

‘HILL BOTTOM: Mesolithic pick of coarse chert 0.15m long with curved point found near Chapmans Pool. Now in BM. Site lies in deciduous woodland in a valley bottom. 7/7/C.’

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456450 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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