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Summary

Bolt tail. Part of the stone collection. One small bag of grey flints mostly white patinated, comprising of two cores with narrow parallel flake scars, nosed and round, scrapers from large flakes, knives; a knife borer a graver/knife, a hafted knife, several small worked flakes, some small blade shaped flakes, a knife/scraper, a crescent shaped thick side scraper, one spearhead, five arrows, one pyramid shaped flake, and two flakes mounted on a board marked borer and gravette points. Nine white patinated flakes comprising various points one reworked at a later date to a beaked shape, one spearhead, one arrowhead, one borer. These flakes at one time have been mounted onto a black card.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Trust SMR: 100,568
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX63NE/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ARTEFACT SCATTER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV140586.

Bolt tail. Part of the stone collection. One small bag of grey flints mostly white patinated, comprising of two cores with narrow parallel flake scars, nosed and round, scrapers from large flakes, knives; a knife borer a graver/knife, a hafted knife, several small worked flakes, some small blade shaped flakes, a knife/scraper, a crescent shaped thick side scraper, one spearhead, five arrows, one pyramid shaped flake, and two flakes mounted on a board marked borer and gravette points. Nine white patinated flakes comprising various points one reworked at a later date to a beaked shape, one spearhead, one arrowhead, one borer. These flakes at one time have been mounted onto a black card.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV140587.

Mus=exe/183/1975/77.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV140588.

Mus=exe 102/1934/596-601, 618-619.

Thackray, C., 1990, Archaeological Survey of the Salcombe Estuary: West (Bolt Head to Bolt Tail and Snapes Point) Devon, 29 (Report - Survey). SDV345519.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds

• FDV3195 - FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Unknown - 698000 BC)

Associated Events

• EDV4935 - Archaeological Survey from Bolt Head to Bolt Tail and Snapes Point
• EDV6587 - Archaeological Assessment of Land between Bolt Heat and Bolt Tail

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