Find Spot record 0082001000 - N. ORBITAL RD, NORMER HILL

Summary

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

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Type and Period (1)

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

Description

AT LEAST 23 HANDAXES, INCLUDING UNFINISHED EXAMPLES, FOUND DURING CONSTRUCTION OF A412. MOST IN MARSDEN COLLECTION, BRITISH MUSEUM, & 3 IN OXFORD UNIV MUSEUM MARKED 'DENHAM 5.5.28' PROB FROM THIS SITE AS THE DATE IS CORRECT FOR THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION (B1-6).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey, wooded roadsides (B9-10).2607.

(TQ 0487) Four Palaeolithic handaxes from the general area of Denham are in the British and Oxford University Museum (B12).

Sources (10)

  • <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.
  • <9>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site CV-3 No.9 p170.
  • <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SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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 p170.
  • <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

Finds (1)

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

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC1283)
  • Event - Survey: The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project (EBC18748)

Record last edited

Apr 7 2026 1:33PM

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