Find Spot record 0080500000 - GT. WESTERN RAILWAY CUTTING

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

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

Description

3 SMALLISH HAND AXES, FAIRLY ROUGHLY MADE, FOUND ON GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, LANGLEY.(BI1).A small handaxe marked 'GWR Cutting Langley' in the Arch and Ethnology Museum Cambridge is more likely to have come from the railway cutting at Iver (TQ 0379) as the railway is on an embankment near Langley village. . 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)

(TQ 0079) Two Palaeolithic handaxes from the GWR cutting at Langley are in the BM and the A & E Museum, Cambridge (B7).
No further information (B8).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (9)

<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SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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SBC22555 Unpublished document: Greater London Council. 1977.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.
<7>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8.
<8>SBC29401 Unpublished document: N K Blood. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 24-JUN-74.
<9>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1997.

Location

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

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

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Event - Intervention: (EBC12796)

Record last edited

Mar 26 2026 3:12PM