Findspot - Neolithic stone axe

Description of this historic site

Find - a Neolithic stone axe was found in the area of Clopton, Stratford upon Avon.

Notes about this historic site

1 In 1777, while digging a morass contiguous to Welcombe, a stone or flint was found exactly in the shape of that which Dugdale has engraved from Camdens ‘Britannia’.
2 Dugdale’s engraving shows a stone axe with round butt and slightly tapering towards the working end.
4 Lost.