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| HER Number: | MDV7929 |
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| Name: | Flints found at Zempson Farm |
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Summary
A barbed and tanged arrowhead, a scraper, and other worked flints were found on Zempson Farm and are now in the Antiquarian Society's Museum, the Guildhall, Totnes.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 715 630 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX76SW |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Dean Prior |
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| District | South Hams |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | DEAN PRIOR |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- National Monuments Record: SX76SW45
- National Monuments Record: SX76SW8
- National Record of the Historic Environment: 444937
- National Record of the Historic Environment: 898158
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX76SW/31
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX76SW/53
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX76SW/6
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- FLINT SCATTER (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
Full description
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV175199.
Des=parish checklist. Vis=estimated -/-/1979 (robinson, r. ). A group of five flints from ploughed fields on zempson farm, buckfastleigh consisting of a broken and barbed tanged arrowhead, small scraper, several flakes, graver. These are now in the possession of totnes museum and were presented by mr fletcher, a teacher at totnes grammar school, who was handed them by a boy at the school. The precise location is not known, and as some of zempson farms fields are in south brent and others in dean prior it is possible that they are relevant to south brent.
Fox, A., 1950, Seventeenth Report on the Early History of Devon, 104 (Article in Serial). SDV336158.
A barbed and tanged arrowhead, a scraper, and other worked flints were found on Zempson Farm and are now in the Antiquarian Society's Museum, the Guildhall, Totnes.
[Zempson Farm published at SX 712628 on O.S. 6" 1907].
Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960, SX76SW8 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV162554.
(07/06/1960) Resident of Zempson Farm, stated that the artifacts mentioned above were found in the field centred at SX 7156 6301.
They are all random surface finds, and scattered flint flakes occur throughout this area and several have also been found to the east in the field.
Centred at SX 7204 6309.
Robinson, R., 1980, An Archaeological Check-List for South Brent, 23, No. 134 (Report - non-specific). SDV150007.
A number of Neolithic or Early Bronze Age flints have been found around Zempson Farm, SX712629, but were not precisely located by the finder.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV150007 | Report - non-specific: Robinson, R.. 1980. An Archaeological Check-List for South Brent. DAS/DCRA Publication. 8. A4 Comb Bound. 23, No. 134. |
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| SDV162554 | Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card: Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division. 1960. SX76SW8. Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card. Card Index. |
| SDV175199 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV336158 | Article in Serial: Fox, A.. 1950. Seventeenth Report on the Early History of Devon. Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 82. A5 Hardback. 104. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV77463 | Related to: Zempson farmstead, Dean Prior (Monument) |
Associated Finds
- FDV5930 - LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD)
- FDV5929 - ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
- FDV7938 - BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
- FDV7939 - SCRAPER (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | May 20 2022 4:29PM |
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