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Scatter of prehistoric artefacts found in Iver

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ARTEFACT SCATTER (Lower Palaeolithic to Early Bronze Age - 500000 BC to 1501 BC)

Description

Palaeolithic implements with no close provenance than Iver parish appear in many museums (see archive sheets, NB only 00:004 is directly linked to the find described, other archive entries refer to collections of mixed artefacts). Most probablt from gravels rather than brickearth (B9).
Palaeolothic sequence (B4).

NRHE description: (TQ 0381) The following Palaeolithic implements have been found in the general area of Iver:- 176 handaxes and 5 roughouts, 9 retouched and 15 unretouched flakes, 2 worked fragments and 5 Levallois flakes. Distribution:- Aylesbury, BM, Cambridge (A&E),Edinburgh (NMA), Hereford, London (Univ Inst Arch), Newcastle (MA) Oxford (Pitt Rivers), Oxford University, and Reading Museums (B12).
Most of the palaeoliths just marked 'Iver' in the earlier collections probably came from the GWR Pit (pref ref 00805) Treacher collected there in the 1890s. (2)

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (13)

<1>SBC20460 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1905. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume I. Volume 1. p193.
<2>SBC1299 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTERS, 1905, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1965.
<3>SBC8219 Bibliographic reference: MARSDEN J G 1925-28 NOTE ON LE MOUSTIER FLINTS FRO M...IVER, IN PREHISTORICSOCIETYOFEASTANGLIA,PROCE.
<4>SBC7187 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1936. 'THE PALAEOLITHIC SEQUENCE AT IVER, BUCKS', IN ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL 16 PP420-443. Vol 16.
<5>SBC7201 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1959. 'PALEOLITHS FROM BRICKEARTH IN SE BUCKS', IN RECS OF BUCKS 16 PP274-288. Vol 16.
<6>SBC7204 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1960. 'ON PALAEOLITHIC CHOPPERS & CLEAVERS', IN RECS OF BUCKS 16 PP330-341 & ILLUS. Vol 16.
<7>SBC2058 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX: IVER.
<8>SBC9887 Bibliographic reference: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES, EDINBURGH.
<9>SBC17080 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P254.
<10>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-3 No.18 p73.
<11>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. MTV-3 No.18.
<12>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8.
<13>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1997; Update 1998.

Location

Grid reference	TQ 03000 81000 (point)
Civil Parish	IVER, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Event - Survey: The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project (EBC18748)

Record last edited

Apr 27 2026 9:37AM