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Palaeolithic and neolithic flint artefacts found in Gerrards Cross

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Type and Period (2)

  • FLINT SCATTER (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • FLINT SCATTER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Description

MR GUY NICKALLS HAS PALEOLITHS FROM THE GRAVEL AT GERRARDS CROSS, MORE THAN 60M ABOVE THE NEAREST POINT OF THE THAMES. FEW WOULD VENTURE TO CALL THIS A VALLEY DEPOSIT (B1).
FROM BULSTRODE PARK AREA? (NGR ABOVE) (B2).
PALEOLITHS (01:001) & NEOLITHIC FLINTS (02:001 ETC) KNOWN FROM PARISH (B3-7).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC14675 Bibliographic reference: SMITH R A 1915 RESEARCHES AT RICKMANSWORTH, IN ARCHAEOLOGIA66P216"".
  • <2>SBC17076 Bibliographic reference: John Wymer. 1968. LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P251.
  • <3>SBC2053 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
  • <4>SBC13241 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 15 1952 P330.
  • <5>SBC6262 Bibliographic reference: HEAD J F 1955 EARLY MAN IN SOUTH BUCKS P152.
  • <6>SBC973 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER 1958, 1965.
  • <7>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site CV-3 Nos.27-28 p172.
  • <8>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. CV-3 Nos.27-28.

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Grid reference SU 98300 88500 (point)
Civil Parish GERRARDS CROSS, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Feb 23 2018 1:54PM

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