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Find Spot record MDR4584 - Polished flint axe, Hell Meadow, Stenson Fields

Type and Period (1)

  • (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)

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  • None recorded

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SK 326316. A Late Neolithic polished flint axe, length 7 1/4 ins. Width at cutting edge 1 3/4 ins., was found whilst digging in a field south-south-east of Hall Pasture Farm and immediately north of Hell Meadow. On loan to Derby Museum (1) The finder is now dead. The axe is retained in Derby Museum (Acc. 167/58). Precise siting not known. (2)

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> Article in serial: 1959. East Midland Archaeological Bulletin, No. 2. p 1.
  • <2> Personal Observation: F1 FDC 30-JAN-67.
  • <3> Index: TPAT. 2393. 2393.

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Grid reference SK 326 316 (point) (Centre)
Civil Parish TWYFORD AND STENSON, SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE

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  • EDR3574
  • EDR1498

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Record last edited

Jan 13 2015 4:35PM

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