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| HER Number: | MDV4160 |
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| Name: | Polished stone axe found at Wedlake |
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Summary
A Neolithic ground and polished stone axe was found in 1964 while cutting back a hedge-bank in the kitchen garden at Wedlake. The axe is now in Plymouth City Museum.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 538 774 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX57NW |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Peter Tavy |
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| District | West Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | PETER TAVY |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- National Monuments Record: SX57NW55
- National Record of the Historic Environment: 439886
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/49
- Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX57NW55
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC (Between))
Full description
Barber, J., 1965, 28th Report on Archaeology and Early History, 90-1, fig. 2 (Article in Serial). SDV91115.
This ground and polished stone axe was found in 1964 while cutting a hedge-bank, to enlarge the kitchen garden at Wedlake. Most of the original polished surface has weathered away, leaving thin veins of harder material standing out obliquely at irregular intervals. Now in Plymouth City Museum (1964.13.1).
Evens, E. D. + Smith, I. F. + Wallis, F. S., 1972, The petrological identification of stone implements from south-western England, 269 (Article in Serial). SDV254826.
The implement petrology survey of the south-west (no. 1268) found it to be made of a thermally, highly altered sedimentary rock. Not assignable to any group or factory. Macroscopically, the axe is greyish-green, coarse-grained, bluish-grey on the cut surface. Microscopically it consists of a fine mixture of pale green very feebly pleochroic amphibole and a pale brown, weakly pleochroic mica together with grains of leucoxene and ilmenite.
National Monument Record, 2018, Pastscape (Website). SDV360651.
A Neolithic ground and polished stone axe was found in 1964 while cutting back a hedge-bank in the kitchen garden at Wedlake. The axe is now in Plymouth City Museum (citing Barber, 1965..
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV254826 | Article in Serial: Evens, E. D. + Smith, I. F. + Wallis, F. S.. 1972. The petrological identification of stone implements from south-western England. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 38. Unknown. 269. |
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| SDV360651 | Website: National Monument Record. 2018. Pastscape. http://www.pastscape.org.uk. Website. |
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| SDV91115 | Article in Serial: Barber, J.. 1965. 28th Report on Archaeology and Early History. Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 97. A5 Hardback. 90-1, fig. 2. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV108044 | Related to: Wedlake farm, Peter Tavy (Monument) |
Associated Finds
- FDV3163 - POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC)
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Sep 3 2021 9:36AM |
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