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HER Number:MDV5822
Name:Flint scatter from Shipley Tor

Summary

A collection of about 15 late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints including scrapers from Shipley Tor is in Exeter City Museums. A scatter of Neolithic flints found at Round Warrens, Shipley Tor is now in Exeter Museum.

Location

Grid Reference:SX 68 63
Map Sheet:SX66SE
Admin AreaDartmoor National Park
Civil ParishSouth Brent
DistrictSouth Hams
Ecclesiastical ParishSOUTH BRENT

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

  • National Monuments Record: SX66SE129
  • National Monuments Record: SX66SE82
  • National Record of the Historic Environment: 442009
  • National Record of the Historic Environment: 442144
  • Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/111

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

OS CITING MASSON PHILLPS, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV168707.

Round warrens, shipley tor. Vis=-/-/1920 and -/-/1925 (stone, f. H. S. ). Part of the stone collection. A fine set of neolithic flints, comprising one end scraper; round ended scraper (end broken); a possible graver; small round scrapers; keeled scraper; small blades and flakes with some tips worn, some retouched, some edges retouched; one large snapped blade retouched (in exeter museum). Vis=the broken top half blade of a flint knife with fine secondary working probably of early bronze age date was found 200 yards above brentmoor house in 1930. Now in totnes museum (os citing masson phillps).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV168708.

Mus=exe/183/1975/22. Scatter of Neolithic flints found at Round Warrens, Shipley Tor, SX 6863. Now in Exeter Museum 183/1975/22. (Shipley Tor SX 6863).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV168709.

Osa=sx66se82.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV168712.

Osa=sx66se83.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV168713.

Masson phillips, e. /tda/88(1956)214.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV168714.

Osa=sx66se129.

Miles, H., 1976, Flint scatters and Prehistoric settlement in Devon, 14 (Article in Serial). SDV117502.

A collection of about 15 late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints including scrapers from Shipley Tor, Round Warrens SX 682632, is in Exeter City Museums.

Jacobi, R. M., 1979, Early Flandrian Hunters in the South-West, fig 18 (Article in Serial). SDV117514.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV117502Article in Serial: Miles, H.. 1976. Flint scatters and Prehistoric settlement in Devon. Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society. 34. A5 Paperback. 14.
SDV117514Article in Serial: Jacobi, R. M.. 1979. Early Flandrian Hunters in the South-West. Proceedings of the Devon Archaeological Society. 37. A5 Paperback. fig 18.
SDV168707Report - Survey: OS CITING MASSON PHILLPS.
SDV168708Migrated Record:
SDV168709Migrated Record:
SDV168712Migrated Record:
SDV168713Migrated Record:
SDV168714Migrated Record:

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded


Date Last Edited:Jul 11 2022 3:28PM

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