Clodgy Moor Environs Lithic Recording Project
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Introduction
The project involves the recording and cataloguing of prehistoric artefacts from the area around Clodgy Moor, Paul. The assemblage was collected from ploughed fields within the parish of Paul between 2004 and 2010 by local amateur archaeologists. This collection of around 8000 artefacts mostly consists of flints (of Mesolithic and Neolithic date). Other objects include rough-out greenstone axe-heads, hammer-stones and around 300 sherds of prehistoric pottery. Much of the pottery is of Late Neolithic Grooved Ware date (circa 3000 to 2500 BC).
The project revealed that some places within the project area were persistently occupied throughout the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, and the results were particularly significant because they shed light on the production of Group I greenstone axes, which were widely exchanged around Britain during the Neolithic period.
Information concerning many of the finds documented in this archive is also available through the Portable Antiquities Scheme database.
