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Summary

Evidence of early flint working has been collected from several places on or near the shores of the torquay reservoir at fernworthy. The implements include a leaf shaped and a barbed and tanged arrowhead, and a chisel like tool or arrow with a tranchet blade, the waste numbers over 800 pieces (fox).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/46

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ARTEFACT SCATTER (Mesolithic to Late Neolithic - 8000 BC to 2201 BC (Between))

Full description

Exeter Museum, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV24677.

Part of the grieg collection covering sites at fernworthy. Comprises one box of flint and stone including scrapers, small cores, blade segments, flakes, blades, leaf shaped arrowheads, a barbed and tanged arrowhead, a petit tranchet derivative arrowhead, microliths, knives (including plano-convex types), whetstone pebbles and waste. Collected between 1954 and 1955 (exeter museum).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV257075.

Fox, a. /tda/85(1953)168-169/20th. Report of the archaeology and early history of devon.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV257076.

Jacobi, r. M. /pdas/37(1979)fig.17/early flandrian hunters in the south-west.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV257077.

Mus=exe/174/1975.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV257078.

Wymer, j. J. /gazetteer of mesolithic sites(cba res rep 20)/(1977)59.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV257079.

Rankine, w. F. /res paper surrey arch soc/4(1956)1-63/the mesolithic of southern england.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV257080.

Mus=exe/278/1998.

MUSEUM, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV3813.

Additional flints collected in 1995 includes large leaf-shaped earlier neolithic arrowheads and 2 early bronze age arrowheads (mus).

FOX, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV4034.

Evidence of early flint working has been collected from several places on or near the shores of the torquay reservoir at fernworthy. The implements include a leaf shaped and a barbed and tanged arrowhead, and a chisel like tool or arrow with a tranchet blade, the waste numbers over 800 pieces (fox).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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