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Summary

Part of the Carter Collection at Otterton Park. One stone axe. It is a polished celt with its surface corroded, a dark stone, now rough like very fine sandpaper. It was a surface find on the edge of the road which winds its way along the edge of the sandstone bluff southwards from Colliver and south of the park gates near the hill called the warren.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 448650
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY08SE/19

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC (Between))

Full description

NMR CITING PPS 1941, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV106800.

Part of the carter collection at otterton park. One stone axe. It is a polished celt with its surface corroded, a dark stone, now rough like very fine sandpaper. It was a surface find on the edge of the road which winds its way along the edge of the sandstone bluff southwards from colliver and south of the park gates near the hill called the warren. Has been matched with a section of greenstone or epidiorite in the geological survey collection from between lay point and st. Ives, cornwall [see osa sw53nw15 for the possible site of this axe factory]. It is the only implement known that is identical with the geological survey section but others may be included in this group ii - where the limits of variation of the parent rock are known (nmr citing pps 1941).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV106801.

Mus=exe/209/1975/8.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV106802.

Osa=sy08se7.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV106803.

Pps/7(1941)55.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV106804.

Pps/17/(1951)106.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, Site No. 2196 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Polished Neolithic stone axe found at Otterton Park.
SMR.

Pink, F., 2014-2015, South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Desk-Based Assessment (Interpretation). SDV357736.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV106800	Migrated Record: NMR CITING PPS 1941.
SDV106801	Migrated Record:
SDV106802	Migrated Record:
SDV106803	Migrated Record:
SDV106804	Migrated Record:
SDV351568	Archive - Survey: Exeter Archaeology. 2003-2004. East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey. East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey. Digital + Mixed Archive Material. Site No. 2196.
SDV357736	Interpretation: Pink, F.. 2014-2015. South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Desk-Based Assessment. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
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Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds

• FDV3447 - AXE HEAD (Early Neolithic to Unknown - 4000 BC)

Associated Events: none recorded

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