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 Laceyfields Farm
replied on: 9/7/2005 6:11:21 PM
I've probably said this on another post (but I think not), but in November 1956 Peter Wright, who worked at Laceyfields Farm (and who is now a Committee Member of the Society), found a Neolithic polished stone axe while gathering stones on a ploughed field at the farm.

The axe, which is described by the National Monuments Register as "coarse, epidotized quartz felspar tuff" (does anyone know what that means?), was given to Derby Museum. It is thought to have most likely originated from the Lake District.

I don't know if there was any press coverage of this find at the time.
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