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Summary

A ground and polished stone axehead was found on parswell farm, belongs to group 4, a product of an axe factory on balstone down, cornwall from 3rd milleninm bc. It is imperfect as it lacks the butt (barber, 1969).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX47SE/12/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

BARBER, 1970, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV260834.

Petrological exam. No.1365 (barber, 1970).

NMR, CITING PEARCE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV260835.

A greenstone axe from parswell in the exeter city museum catalogue (no 438/1977/2)(nmr, citing pearce).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV260837.

Barber, j. /arch. Review/5(1970)13.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV260838.

Evens, e. D. + smith, i. D. + wallis, f. S. /pps/38(1972)259,273.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV260840.

Pearce, s. M. /devon in prehistory/exeter city museum (no 102)/(1978)42.

Barber, J., 1969, 30th Report on Archaeology and Early History, 257 (Article in Serial). SDV350130.

A ground and polished stone axe found on Parswell Farm in 1966, by the farmer, who has retained it. Examination by the Implement Petrology Survey of the South West has proved that this implement belonged to group IV, being a product of the axe factory which flourished on Balstone Down, Cornwall, during the third millenium BC. The axehead is imperfect, lacking the butt. The length extant is 117mm, the greatest width 66mm and the greatest thickness 37mm.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX47SE19 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV260839.

A ground and polished stone axe found on Parswell Farm in 1966, by the farmer, who has kept it. It is 117mm long, greatest width 66mm, and 37mm greatest thickness. It is not perfect as it lacks the butt. Examination has proved, it is a product of the axe factory on Balstone Down, Cornwall. TDA, 1969, pg. 257.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds

• FDV3156 - AXE HEAD (Early Neolithic to Unknown - 4000 BC)

Associated Events: none recorded

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