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Summary

Lower to Middle Palaeolithic handaxes found in Iver Parish

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

A large number of hand axes from Iver dispersed among numerous museums, with no more specific provenance. Many early finds probably came from GWR Pit (CASS 02396)(B9).
Many collected by Mr J Rutland (B1).
Axes described & sketched (B7).
Accounts of Palaeoliths from Iver (B5-6).
Axes described (B2).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey, includes 3 handaxes recorded from railway cutting at Langley (B10-11).

Sources (8)

  • <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.
  • <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.
  • <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SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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.

Location

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

Finds (1)

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

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Record last edited

May 30 2022 1:42PM

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