Monument record 0079900000 - LARBOURNE FARM, THORNEY

MAMMALIAN BONES & POTTERY FOUND DURING GRAVEL EXTRACTION 1960-1 (00:001-003) (B1). EXCAVATION IN 1962 PRODUCED BONES, ROMAN & MED POT, ROMAN TILE & EGYPTIAN USHABIT (B2-4). IN 1966 THE DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN SKULL WAS REPORTED FROM THE SITE (B5).
In Lavenden's pit, immediately east of Mansion Lane and 50 yards north of the canal, many flint artefacts were found: 16 handaxes, one chopper, two cleavers, one hammerstone, one levalloisian blade and flakes (B7)
In the ballast pits east of Larborne farm in Iver, Romano-British pottery and may broken fragments rangingin datefrom the first to the fourth centuries AD have been found. They have been studied and classified at the Museum of London. The quantity of the finds and their range in date would justify further investigation in this area, although it appears that most of this site has already been destroyed by gravel workings (B7)