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Summary

Neolithic and Bronze Age lithic scatter, south of Warlowe Farm, Salmonby

Full description

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An extensive scatter of worked lithic objects dating from the Neolithic to Bronze Age period have been recovered over several years during field walking. The details of these finds have been listed below.
A broken polished flint axe found to the south of Warlowe Farm, Salmonby. {1}{2}
A small Neolithic flint knife found by Mr Bee while fieldwalking. Mr Bee considers it may well be early Neolithic, but few knives of this type have been found (TF 3179 7438 - formerly 43427). {3}
Bronze Age flints found, including a plano-convex knife, an end-scraper, and a notched blade found near to a round barrow. In 1998 further Bronze Age flints were found on this site, including large flakes, a barbed and tanged arrowhead, and hollow and end scrapers (TF 3170 7435 formerly 43436). {4}{5}
A Neolithic bifacial knife, possibly burnt, TF 3175 7428 (formerly 43437). Also a Neolithic flint flake at TF 3170 7423 (formerly 43458). {6}
An early Bronze Age end scraper in good condition was found by Mr Bee in 1997 while fieldwalking in Salmonby. The find remains in Mr Bee's possession (hc2 891) (TF 3188 7435 fomerly 43496). {7}
A fragment of Neolithic polished stone axe (TF 3185 7434 formerly 43721). {8}
Neolithic flints were found on this site, including a leaf shaped arrowhead, a thumbnail scraper, and two knives (TF 3170 7435 formerly 43723). {9}
During fieldwalking in Salmonby Mr Bill Bee recovered a tool which was a reused fragment of Neolithic polished stone axe. It is a flake worked to form cutting or scraping edges and with a small remaining section of serration on one of the edges; the smooth, polished side of the flake betrays its origin as a Neolithic axe (TF 3190 7422 formerly 43774). {10}{11}
Two fragments of polished stone axe were found during fieldwalking by Mr Bee. They are not from the same axe. One of the fragments is the blade end (TF 3170 7430 formerly 44041). {12}
In 1998 the blade end of a prehistoric axe was found during fieldwalking by Mr Bee at TF 3184 7426. In June 2001 the butt end of the same axe was found a short distance away from the original findspot (TF 3203 7442). The axe may be a Palaeolithic bifacial handaxe, which may have been reused in a later period. Alternatively the axe may have been Neolithic originally, which is suggested by its unusual shape (long and tapering), and two areas of polishing. It is poor quality flint with iron-staining (TF 3184 7426 formerly 44042). {13}

<01> SMR FILE, TF 37 SW CV - (Index). SLI3240.

<02> OS CARD INDEX, TF 37 SW 5,1962, DA (Index). SLI2703.

<03> BEE, T.W., 1996, Untitled Source, HC2 738 SW (Verbal Communication). SLI4872.

<04> BEE, T.W., 1996, Untitled Source, 799 (Verbal Communication). SLI4872.

<05> BEE, T.W., 1998, Untitled Source, HC3.309-10,315,320 (Verbal Communication). SLI4874.

<06> BEE, T.W., 1996, Untitled Source, - (Verbal Communication). SLI4872.

<07> BEE, T.W., 1997, Untitled Source, HC2 891 (Verbal Communication). SLI4873.

<08> BEE, T.W., 1998, Untitled Source, - (Verbal Communication). SLI4874.

<09> BEE, T.W., 1998, Untitled Source, HC3.311,316,318 (Verbal Communication). SLI4874.

<10> Bee, W. and Bennet, M., 1998, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Vol 33, page 46 (Article in Serial). SLI5440.

<11> BEE, T.W., 1997, Untitled Source, HC2 972 (Verbal Communication). SLI4873.

<12> Bee, T.W., 2001, Information from Mr Bill Bee following his field walking, HC4.556; HC4.585 (Verbal Communication). SLI6701.

<13> Bee, T.W., 2001, Information from Mr Bill Bee following his field walking, HC2.808; HC4.614 (Verbal Communication). SLI6701.

Monument Types

• LITHIC SCATTER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)

Associated Finds

• AXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Neolithic - 500000 BC? to 2201 BC)
• AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 801 BC)
• FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• KNIFE (Early Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• POLISHED AXEHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• FLAKE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)

Protected Status

• SHINE

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