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Summary

A polished adze of tuff was dug up when removing an old ash in the garden of 'maple holme' in priory road, torquay. The blade is sharp but chipped at the corners, the butt is heavily worn and pocked. It seems to have been re-used as a pounder. The 'sw stone axe com' report no.1127 states that the dark brown tuff is composed of quartz, decomposed felspar, basalt or andesite, epidate, green horn-blende and turbid brown, nearly isotropic, glass. The rock cannot be localised. It is not a common neolithic tool (fox).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX96NW/4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2201 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317987.

Fox, a. /tda/93(1961)64-5, fig.3/25th. Report on archaeology and early history.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317988.

Des=the proceedings of the w. Cornwall field club/1(1953-4)90.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317989.

Osa=sx96nw16.

FOX, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV4034.

A polished adze of tuff was dug up when removing an old ash in the garden of 'maple holme' in priory road, torquay. The blade is sharp but chipped at the corners, the butt is heavily worn and pocked. It seems to have been re-used as a pounder. The 'sw stone axe com' report no.1127 states that the dark brown tuff is composed of quartz, decomposed felspar, basalt or andesite, epidate, green horn-blende and turbid brown, nearly isotropic, glass. The rock cannot be localised. It is not a common neolithic tool (fox).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV2970 - AXE HEAD (Early Neolithic to Unknown - 4000 BC)

Associated Events: none recorded

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