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Palaeolithic and neolithic flint artefacts found in Gerrards Cross

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

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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).

Six Palaeolithic handaxes have been found in the general area of Gerrards Cross. They are distributed between Avebury, Aylesbury and the Hunterian Museums and in an anonymous private collection (B9).
"Several palaeoliths" have been found in Bulstrode Park (SU 9888). No details given (B10).
Bucks County Museum Palaeolithic Index lists three Acheulean handaxes from Bulstrode Park, one of which is in Eton College Museum (Acc no 13.54) having been found in 1907, and donated by D H Littlehales. A further handaxe from Oxford Road, Gerrards Cross was presented by Littlehales, to Bucks Co Museum (Acc No 13 13/54) (B5).
A Palaeolithic handaxe found on the surface at Gerrards Cross was presented to Bucks Co Museum in 1952 by E C Rouse. (Accessions Register for 1952 lost) (B4).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (11)

<1>SBC14675 Article in serial: R A Smith. 1915. 'RESEARCHES AT RICKMANSWORTH', IN ARCHAEOLOGIA 66 P216. Vol 66.
<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>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. 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SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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.
<9>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8.
<10>SBC453 Article in serial: 1923. ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL 1923 3 P263. Vol 3.
<11>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1998.

Location

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

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

Record last edited

Apr 7 2026 10:55AM