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Find Spot record MDR4992 - Lamb Pasture, Mesolithic-Neolithic/Bronze Age Flint Implements

Type and Period (1)

  • (Early Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 1501 BC)

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  • None recorded

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SK 31656630 Lamb Pasture, Mesolithic-Neolithic-Bronze Age Flint Implements. A collection of flint from north-east of Roach Farm. It included a variety of scrapers, cores, a leaf arrowhead and 150 waste flakes. (1) Roach House Farm, Ashover. Examination by the North Derbyshire Archaeological Trust of freshly ploughed soils revealed a multi-period occupation area. The Mesolithic component includes rod microliths, four black chert cores, two scrapers and 150 narrow blades. Other artefacts include leaf arrowheads indicating contamination by later occupation. (2)

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Index: NDAT. 2732. 2732.
  • <2> Bibliographic reference: Hart, C (NDAT). 1981. The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey to AD 1500. p 32.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 3165 6630 (10m by 10m) (Centre)
Civil Parish ASHOVER, NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE

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Record last edited

Feb 28 2011 1:55PM

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