Find Spot record 0762700000 - Harlands, Newland
Summary
Rhinocerous tooth found during construction of a gasometer
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Type and Period (1)
- LAYER? (Pleistocene - 2000000 BC to 10001 BC)
Description
Francis Colmer was an antiquary and artist active in the High Wycombe area in the 1920s and 1930s who contributed articles to the Bucks Free Press. His notebooks are in the County Museum collection (AYBCM 182.1988). In Book I, page 5, he notes a ‘Rhinoceros tooth (Newlands) found when making excavations for gasometer at … [?Harlands] in possession of Mr.T.Thurlow’. ?Harlands has not been traced but the gasworks is shown on the Ordnance Survey 62 sheet 47, survey 1875-6, published 1883, and there is still a gasometer at the same location within the area shown as ‘Newland’ which could be ‘Harlands'. Thomas Thurlow appears in Kelly’s 1903 Buckinghamshire Directory as an architect and surveyor in High Wycombe (B1).
Sources (1)
- <1>SBC24233 Article in serial: Michael Farley. 2012. 'Discoveries of Ice Age Mammals and other Pleistocene Deposits in Central and North Buckinghamshire', in Recs of Bucks 52 pp1-23. Vol 52.
Location
| Grid reference | SU 86186 92960 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire |
Finds (1)
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Pleistocene - 2000000 BC to 10001 BC)
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Record last edited
Jun 22 2026 3:47PM
