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ID:SDV15558
Title:Eighteenth Report on the Archaeology and Early History of Devon
Originator:Fox, A.
Date:1951
Summary:A stone axe was found on the surface in Clovelly Dykes hill-fort. The Stone Axe Co report that it is a sheared tremolite, with chlorite and ilmenite, originally probably from the greenstone of Balstone Down, near Callington, Cornwall. 12 other axes of this rock, forming group 4 of the committee's classification, are known from sites in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset.

Associated Monuments (11)

MDV8467Axe found at Natton Hole Quarry, Drewsteignton (Find Spot)
MDV171Bead from Clovelly Dykes (Find Spot)
MDV11747Bronze Coin, Bideford (Find Spot)
MDV7224Burleigh Dolts, South Huish, South Hams (Monument)
MDV2373Cairn with Cist on Wigford Down, Meavy (Monument)
MDV169Clovelly Dykes (Monument)
MDV1652Find of triangular stone loomweight, Brentor (Find Spot)
MDV5344FINDSPOT in the Parish of Lynton and Lynmouth (Find Spot)
MDV172Mesolithic Scatter from East Dyke Farm, Clovelly (Monument)
MDV57958Roman Coin found in Bideford (Find Spot)
MDV170Stone Axe from Clovelly Dykes (Find Spot)