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Find Spot record MDR3957 - Eyam, Bretton Racecourse, Neolithic Lithics

Type and Period (1)

  • (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

A quantity of material recovered from a field adjacent to Bretton Racecourse by C. Daniel prior to 1969. The material, some 20 flints included leaf-shaped and petit tranchet derivative arrowheads, a saw and waste flint flakes. Also found was a polished Craig Llwyd group VII stone axe. (2)

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <1> Article in serial: Preston, F (East Midlands Committee of Field Archaeologists). 1977. East Midlands Archaeology Bulletin, 1977. Volume 11 No. 4.
  • <2> Index: NDAT. 0894. 0894.
  • <3> Article in serial: PPS. Descriptive Text. 40, p 72.
  • <4> Index: OS. SK 27 NW 113. SK 27 NW 113.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 203 778 (100m by 100m) (Multiple Site Centre)
Civil Parish EYAM, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Jun 19 2009 2:12PM

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