Monument record MLI54032 - PREHISTORIC FLINTS AND STONE AXE FOUND EAST OF LEA GRANGE FARM

Summary

PREHISTORIC FLINTS AND STONE AXE FOUND EAST OF LEA GRANGE FARM

Type and Period (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

A LARGE FLINT PROJECTILE POINT THREE AND A QUARTER INCHES LONG AND NEARLY TWO INCHES WIDE WAS PICKED UP ON THE SURFACE AND REPORTED IN 1968. IDENTIFIED BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM, WHO CONSIDERED IT TO BE LATE NEOLITHIC OR EARLY BRONZE AGE. {1}{5} A STONE AXE (PROBABLY OF GREAT LANGDALE STONE, BUT NOT THIN-SECTIONED) AND TWO EARLY BRONZE AGE FLINT SCRAPERS WERE FOUND IN THIS AREA AND REPORTED IN 1972. {2}{4} A MESOLITHIC OR NEOLITHIC FLINT FLAKE WAS FOUND IN A FIELD NEAR LEA GRANGE (AT SK84398633) AND REPORTED IN 1974. {3}{6}

Sources/Archives (6)

  •  Index: SMR FILE. LEA. SK 88 NW:H,1968, -.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. LEA. SK 88 NW:L,1972, -.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. LEA. SK 88 NW:U,1974, -.
  •  Article in Serial: MARJORAM, J.. 1973. 'Archaeological notes, 1972' in Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. VOL 8 p36.
  •  Article in Serial: J.B. Whitwell and Catherine M. Wilson. 1969. LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. VOL 4 p99.
  •  Index: A.J. White. 1978. EAST MIDLANDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. No 12 p20.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 8439 8633 (51m by 45m)
Civil Parish LEA, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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