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Submerged Forest, Freshwater West

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NPRN524740
Map ReferenceSR89NE
Grid ReferenceSR8834299870
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunityAngle
Type Of SiteARTEFACT SCATTER
PeriodMesolithic
Description
A flint tranchet axe, flint flakes and a flint implement have been recovered from a site eroding from below a peat exposure. The peat has been sampled and dated to a calibrated C14 date of 5250-4550 BC (Green 1998, 41). Charcoal was also recovered.

Sources include:
Bell, M, 2007, Prehistoric Coastal Communities: The Mesolithic in Western Britain, CBA Research Report 149, pg2
Dyfed Archaeological Trust HER ref: 503
Green, DP , 1998 , The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition on the Pembroke Peninsula ,
Leach, A L, 1913, Stone implements from soil drifts and chipping floors etc, in South Pembrokeshire, Archaeological Cambrensis LXVIII, 391-2
Page, N, 2004, Prehistoric Undefended Settlements Project, Southwest Wales: A Review of the Lithic Evidence from the Regional SMR

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, February 2013.