Find Spot record 0448500000 - MEARE ESTATE, WOOBURN GREEN

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Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe found during building of housing estate

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

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Dimensions - Depth/Thickness 0029 Length 0114 mm Width 0060
OCHREOUS PATINA, SLIGHTLY ROLLED? BROKEN AT POINT & REWORKED IN ANTIQUITY. WYMER TYPE F (POINTED), VERGING ON TYPE G (SUB-CORDATE) AT BUTT THOUGH THIS IS SCARCELY TRIMMED (REF: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PAL. ARCH. IN BRITAIN) (DRAWING, FILED). FOUND BY BERNARD FLAY, 1950'S IN BUILDING ESTATE (B1).
NGR TO ESTATE (B2).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B3-4).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC16441 Verbal communication: R Watts. 1979. WATTS R TO FARLEY M E, PERS COMM, MAY 1979.
  • <1>SBC24641 Graphic material: Denise Allen (BCM). 1979?. DRAWING BY DENISE ALLEN.
  • <2>SBC10461 Map: OS 1975 1:10000 MAP.
  • <3>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site CH-2 No.10.
  • <4>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. CH-2 No.10.

Location

Grid reference SU 910 896 (point)
Civil Parish WOOBURN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

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

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Nov 29 2023 7:53PM

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