{"id":3958,"date":"2021-04-08T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:54:04","slug":"neolithic-axe-newton-abbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/latest-news\/neolithic-axe-newton-abbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Neolithic axe found near the A382 at Newton Abbot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2021\/04\/ACD2183_10054_flint_axe-CopyrightACarchaeology-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2021\/04\/ACD2183_10054_flint_axe-CopyrightACarchaeology-1-240x181.jpeg\" alt=\"A colour photograph of both sides of a stone axe, broken across into 4 pieces, with surface cracking, fissures and a brown and grey colouration from burning. The axe is tapered, with a scale showing it to be approximately 20.5 cm long and the cutting edge about 6.0 cm wide.\" class=\"wp-image-3961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2021\/04\/ACD2183_10054_flint_axe-CopyrightACarchaeology-1-240x181.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2021\/04\/ACD2183_10054_flint_axe-CopyrightACarchaeology-1-797x600.jpeg 797w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2021\/04\/ACD2183_10054_flint_axe-CopyrightACarchaeology-1-768x578.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2021\/04\/ACD2183_10054_flint_axe-CopyrightACarchaeology-1-640x482.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/184\/2021\/04\/ACD2183_10054_flint_axe-CopyrightACarchaeology-1.jpeg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Broken and burned Neolithic flint axe head from A382, Newton Abbot. Copyright: AC Archaeology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pit containing a Neolithic axe and pottery has been discovered during archaeological excavations near the A382 at Newton Abbot.&nbsp; The axe had been burnt before it was buried in the pit, which had caused it to break into four pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The archaeological mitigation works are being undertaken by AC archaeology and SLR Consulting as part of the road improvement scheme between the A382 and Howton Road to the north-west of Newton Abbot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information on the project and what has been found so far can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/projects\/a382-a383-connection-road\/\">current projects page<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/neolithic-axe-unearthed-during-archaeological-excavation-near-a382\/?fbclid=IwAR2xTV3hK_XNlm33T7SSYjs5HTzEye8saneEbSRtH1cfk9pNvymidsFFWmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DCC News Centre<\/a> and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/6c734d1936d74d9bbd43a4d94ccee5e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bi-weekly journal of the excavations<\/a> produced by the archaeologists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pit containing a Neolithic axe and pottery has been discovered during archaeological excavations near the A382 at Newton Abbot.&nbsp; The axe had been burnt before it was buried in the pit, which had caused it to break into four pieces. The archaeological mitigation works are being undertaken by AC archaeology and SLR Consulting as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 21:31:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historic-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}