Find Spot record 0082000000 - N. ORBITAL RD, NORMER HILL

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Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint artefacts found in road cutting on Normer Hill

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Archaeological Notification Area: Early Palaeolithic flint scatter, possibly a flint-working site (DBC8635)

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ARTEFACT SCATTER (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Description

PALEOLITHS PICKED UP IN A CUTTING FOR NEW ROAD, MADE THROUGH PROMONTARY. SECTION SHOWED 1) HUMUS; 2) 1-3M OCHREOUS CLAYEY & SANDY GRAVEL; 3) 0.5-2.5M MOTTLED IMPURE CLAY; 4) BEDS OF PURE BLUE & GREY CLAYS. MOST FINDS FROM GRAVEL. ACHEULEAN (B1-7).
AXES MARKED DENHAM 5.5.28 PROB ALSO FROM THIS SITE (B5).
In 1928 flint implements were discovered in a road cutting through a glacial promontory at Normer Hill (present-day Northmoor) in Bucks. These consisted of 14 acheulean handaxes and several other stone tool implements, for example, cores and retouched and waste flakes, making up a basically acheulean/clactonian industry (B11).

Several flint implements were found during the building of the Denham-Rickmansworth road in 1928 3/4 of a mile N by W of Denham railway station. (ie the cutting shown on OS 6" 1960 at TQ 039890). The finds included hand-axes, scrapers and ovates, besides numerous flakes. They were identified by Marsden as Acheulean and are now in the BM. (B2).
TQ 039889. Normer Hill, Denham. The finds comprised: 12 handaxes and 2 roughouts, 3 cores, 38 retouched and 36 unretouched flakes and 6 worked fragments. All in the British Museum (B12).

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---SBC29415 Article in serial: E Clive Rouse. 1929. 'Notes' in Records of Buckinghamshire Vol 12, Part 3, Pages 147-148. p147-148.
<1>SBC13226 Article in serial: E Clive Rouse. 1929. RECS OF BUCKS 12 1929 PP 147-148 (NOTE BY E C ROUSE). Vol 12.
<2>SBC8221 Bibliographic reference: MARSDEN J G 1929-32 ST ACHEUL IMPLEMENTS FROM HIGH LEVEL GRAVEL AT DENHAM, IN PROCPREHISTORICSOCIETY.
<3>SBC2053 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
<4>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. p150.
<5>SBC17085 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN PP248-249.
<6>SBC11268 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD TQ 08 NW 04.
<7>SBC7951 Unpublished document: London Museum. 1969. LONDON MUSEUM 1969.
<8>SBC2441 Bibliographic reference: CAS CARD 0820.
<9>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site CV-3 No.9 pp165, 170.
<10>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. CV-3 No.9.
<11>SBC22555 Unpublished document: Greater London Council. 1977. The Archaeology of the Colne Valley Park. Table 1.
<12>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8.
<13>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1998.

Location

Grid reference	TQ 04000 89000 (point)
Civil Parish	DENHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire