Find Spot record 0451000000 - THAMES FIELD, HAMBLEDEN

Summary

Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic flint artefacts found on ground surface

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Type and Period (1)

  • LITHIC SCATTER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Neolithic - 500000 BC to 2351 BC)

Description

PALAEOLITHIC & NEOLITHIC FINDS FROM FIELDS NEAR RIVER (B1).
NUMEROUS AURIGNACIAN FINDS & PALAEOLITHS FROM SURFACE FOUND ON PLATEAU ABOVE RIVER TERRACES (B2-3).
VARIOUS FINDS FROM THAMES FIELD & MILL END, YEWDEN (B4-5).
'THAMES FIELD' SHOWN ON TITHE MAP CENTRED AT NGR (B6).
Site noted in the English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B7).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC15590 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 3 P47.
  • <2>SBC11637 Article in serial: A E PEAKE. 1918. 'SURFACE PALAEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FROM THE CHILTERNS', IN PREHISTORIC SOCIETY OF EAST ANGLIA PROCEEDINGS 2 P579. Vol 2.
  • <3>SBC11098 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 78 NE 21 (NOT RETAINED).
  • <4>SBC17096 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J J & BONSALL C J 1977 GAZETTEER OF MESOLITH IC/UPPER PALAEOLITHIC SITES IN ENGLAND & WALES, C.
  • <5>SBC6042 Unpublished document: HAMBLEDEN MUSEUM LOAN COLLECTION (MATERIAL LISTED BY G C LAMB & M E FARLEY 1978).
  • <6>SBC9509 Map: MRS J TAYLOR FROM HAMBLEDEN TITHE MAP 1845 (IN BRO REF.IR29-30/3/51).
  • <7>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-2 No1; p63.
  • <8>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. MTV-2 no 1.

Location

Grid reference SU 79000 84800 (point)
Civil Parish HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)

Record last edited

Mar 2 2009 2:26PM

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