Find Spot record 0084401004 - LAVENDER'S PIT

Summary

Lower to Middle Palaeolithic hammerstone found in gravel workings at Lavender's Pit

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  • None recorded

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0090 mm
BATTERED AT BOTH ENDS. ROLLED & STAINED. FOUND IN GRAVEL LAYERS OF PIT (B6-8).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey, pit levelled, Levallois artefacts from overlying Brickearth (B11-12)

Sources (5)

  • <6>SBC7201 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1959. 'PALEOLITHS FROM BRICKEARTH IN SE BUCKS', IN RECS OF BUCKS 16 PP274-288. Vol 16.
  • <7>SBC17086 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P252.
  • <8>SBC2053 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
  • <11>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-3 No.11 p72.
  • <12>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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.11.

Location

Grid reference TQ 02300 80120 (point)
Civil Parish IVER, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

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

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC10011)

Record last edited

Mar 3 2009 11:09AM

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