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Summary

Pygmy flints from Stannon Brook, 3.04m above stream, near standing stone (location only four figures). The flints and chips occur just below a surface bed of peat 200mm - 300mm thick in a soil of decomposed granite. Flint evidently brought as pebbles perhaps from the raised beach at Torquay. One small tin of chips of flint and chert. One small bag of pygmy flints comprising small cores, flakes with cortex some with retouched edges but mostly waste, small straight sided flakes.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW26
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442581
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/80

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX67NW26 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV265944.

Wymer, J. J., 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites, 59 (Monograph). SDV8096.

Postbridge. Pygmy flints from Stannon Brook, 3.04m above stream, near standing stone. The flints and chips occur just below a surface bed of peat 200mm - 300mm thick in a soil of decomposed granite. Flint evidently brought as pebbles perhaps from the raised beach at Torquay. One small tin of chips of flint and chert. One small bag of pygmy flints comprising small cores, flakes with cortex some with retouched edges but mostly waste, small straight sided flakes (Exeter Museum, 82/1949).
Material 'from Postbridge' in Exeter, Plymouth and Stround Museums examined by Jacobi and Palmer. Contains much Mesolithic material.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX67NW26 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV248848.

Near the left bank of the East Dart in Greyhound Marsh, Postbridge a hut was discovered. It contained flints and potsherds (Devon SMR cited) NMR number SX67NW26.
(10/10/1978) Greyhound marsh is an area of boggy ground centred at SX 64527915. No hut can now be seen.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8497 - Excavation, Lydford
• EDV8646 - Archerton, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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