Find Spot record 0122500000 - ROAD TO HEATH END,W.SIDE

Summary

Palaeolithic handaxe found in road material transported to Heath End

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Dimensions - Width 0082 Length 0113 mm
WELL MADE MID-ACHEULIAN OVATE HAND AXE. WELL WORKED. STRAIGHT SIDES. UNROLLED. FOUND BY MR. ANDREW COPE, AUTUMN 1964, FALLEN FROM STEEP ROADBANK (BIBL1-2). ACCORDING TO FINDER HANDAXE PROBABLY CAME FROM TRANSPORTED ROAD METALLING. FOUND AT NGR (BIBL3)
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Project, not shown on asssociated mapping, possibly from road metalling (B4)

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC2042 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
  • <2>SBC13645 Article in serial: RECS OF BUCKS 1965 17 P411.
  • <3>SBC10552 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS FIELD INVESTIGATOR.
  • <4>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site p181.

Location

Grid reference SP 95060 06480 (point)
Civil Parish CHOLESBURY-CUM-ST. LEONARDS, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • HANDAXE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12861)

Record last edited

Mar 4 2009 11:11AM

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