Find Spot record 0080500000 - GT. WESTERN RAILWAY CUTTING

Summary

Four Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxes found during railway cutting for the Great Western

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

3 SMALLISH HAND AXES, FAIRLY ROUGHLY MADE, FOUND ON GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, LANGLEY.(BI1).1 SMALL HAND AXE, DESCRIBED AS HAVING COME FROM GWR CUTTING, LANGLEY, BUT MORE LIKELY TO HAVE COME FROM IVER, AS RAILWAY AT LANGLEY IS ON AN EMBANKMENT. POINTED, V.ROLLED, STAINED.(BI2) NGR HALFWAY, IVER & LANGEY(3
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey, includes 3 handaxes recorded from railway cutting at Langley (B4-5)
Several palaeoliths were found (B6)

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC2053 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
  • <2>SBC17069 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P252.
  • <3>SBC12276 Map: PIKE, A R FROM OS 1960 SIX INCH MAP.
  • <4>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-3 No.18 p73.
  • <5>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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.
  • <6>SBC22555 Unpublished document: Greater London Council. 1977. The Archaeology of the Colne Valley Park. Table 2.

Location

Grid reference TQ 02400 79800 (point)
Civil Parish IVER, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

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

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12796)

Record last edited

Dec 4 2014 7:44AM

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