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HER Number:MDV14554
Name:Prehistoric Flints from Soar Mill Cove

Summary

Prehistoric flints recovered from Soar Mill Cove

Location

Grid Reference:SX 697 375
Map Sheet:SX63NE
Admin AreaDevon
Civil ParishMalborough
DistrictSouth Hams
Ecclesiastical ParishMALBOROUGH

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

  • National Monuments Record: 440929
  • National Trust SMR: 100,555
  • Old DCC SMR Ref: SX63NE/20
  • Royal Albert Memorial Museum Accession Number: EXE102/1934: 629-638

Monument Type(s) and Dates

  • ARTEFACT SCATTER (Mesolithic - 8000 BC to 4001 BC (Between))

Full description

SOAR MILL COVE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV153990.

Sewer cove (soar mill cove). Mesolithic finds including a scraper and three unretouched flakes. Now in rougemont house museum. Published grid ref. Sx704367 unidentified, os 6 inch 1967 shows soar mill cove at sx697375.


Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV153992.

Wymer, j. J. /gazetteer of mesolithic sites cba res. Rep. /20/(1977)60.


Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV153993.

Osa=sx63ne8.


Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV153994.

Mus-exe.


Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV153995.

Berridge, p. J. /pdas/42(1984)101-103/a mesolithic site on bolberry down.


Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV153996.

Palmer, s. /mesolithic cultures of britain/1977.


BERRIDGE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV56585.

Annotated os map in the collection of captain f. H. S. Stone refers to "a small hand axe and few scrapers etc" found at soar mill cove by w. H. Roberts in 1930. Palmer erroneously gives the axe a bolberry down provenance.(berridge).


Thackray, C., 1990, Archaeological Survey of the Salcombe Estuary: West (Bolt Head to Bolt Tail and Snapes Point) Devon, 25 (Report - Survey). SDV345519.


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

Sources / Further Reading

SDV153990Migrated Record: SOAR MILL COVE.
SDV153992Migrated Record:
SDV153993Migrated Record:
SDV153994Migrated Record:
SDV153995Migrated Record:
SDV153996Migrated Record:
SDV345519Report - Survey: Thackray, C.. 1990. Archaeological Survey of the Salcombe Estuary: West (Bolt Head to Bolt Tail and Snapes Point) Devon. National Trust Archaeological Survey Report. A4 Comb Bound + Digital. 25.
SDV357736Interpretation: Pink, F.. 2014-2015. South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Desk-Based Assessment. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
Linked documents:1
SDV56585Migrated Record: BERRIDGE.

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

  • EDV4935 - Archaeological Survey from Bolt Head to Bolt Tail and Snapes Point

Date Last Edited:May 5 2015 8:52AM

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