Monument record 0752000000 - Opposite Three Bridges Mill

Pleistocene mammal bones ‘from gravel and clay pit opposite Three Bridges Mill, Twyford. SP 676 270’ donated to BCM by Mr G Hodges in 1974. Although recorded as being from Twyford, the site actually lies just north of the stream in Preston Bissett parish. On the 1900 edition OS 6 inch map, the area is fields but on the 1951 1:25,00 map, lakes are shown; presumably infilled pits. Although given to the museum in 1974 it seems likely that find would have come from these small pits during their working life, which has not been further defined. The lakes (pits) are adjacent to a diversion of the road to the east and it is possible that the gravel was used during road construction. It is worth noting that this site and the Steeple Claydon site [CAS 09131] are only c700m apart and both at c.85m OD (B1).