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Find Spot record MDR3799 - Stone axe, Winster Common, Winster

Type and Period (1)

  • (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)

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  • None recorded

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A large basalt axe-head was found upon Winster Common, in about the middle of the 18th century. (1) This implement is in the private collection of Mr J. Heathcote, Birchover. He has no siting information, the find being received from his late father. (2) As the grid reference given for this findspot is only four figures long, the point has been removed from the map. (3)

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> Bibliographic reference: Bateman, T. 1848. Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire. p7.
  • <2> Personal Observation: F1 FDC 16-NOV-66.
  • <3> Personal Observation: Thornton, A. Personal observation, map evidence, field visit etc..

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Civil Parish WINSTER, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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  • EDR1158

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Record last edited

May 20 2015 12:06PM

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