Find Spot record 0593300000 - NEW CANAL CUTTING,LANGLEY

Summary

Fourteen Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint artefacts found in a canal cutting at Langley

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

Description

The finds comprise 3 handaxes and 1 roughout, 6 retouched and 2 unretouched flakes, 1 worked fragment and 1 Levallois core. All from the New Canal cutting TQ 017800 (B1).
Ten Palaeolithic flint scrapers (Reg Nos 3401-3410) and four flint implements (Reg No 3411-3414) found at Langley (TQ 0079) are now in the Luton Museum (B2).

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8. p32.
  • <2>SBC29400 Index: J Morris. Luton Museum List 3 9 1 61 (J Morris).
  • <3>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon.
  • <4>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).
  • <5>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1998.

Location

Grid reference TQ 01700 80000 (point)
Civil Parish WEXHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (3)

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

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC11976)
  • Event - Survey: The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project (EBC18748)

Record last edited

Mar 26 2026 3:00PM

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