page_title: Fyfield Down
section_title: The Polisher
hierarchical_section_title: Fyfield Down / Sarsens / The Polisher
caption_attribution_description: English: This stone is know as the polisher and is reputed to have been used by Neolithic and Bronze Age people’s as a sharping stone.
context_page_description: Fyfield Down is part of the Marlborough Downs, about 1.5 miles north of the village of Fyfield, Wiltshire. The down is a 325.3 hectare biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notified in 1951. The down has the best assemblage of sarsen stones in England, known as the Grey Wethers.
  The site is to be distinguished from another Fyfield Down also in Wiltshire, east of Pewsey and on the edge of Salisbury Plain, near another place called Fyfield. The two places are only about 9 miles apart.
context_section_description: On the west side of the down (grid reference SU12837150) is a recumbent sarsen stone with grooved markings. It is thought to be a prehistoric grinding bench for shaping, whetting, and polishing stone axe-heads, and is similar to other Neolithic and Bronze Age examples in France.
caption: The Polisher close up
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