Find Spot record 0129401000 - DORNEY WOOD, BURNHAM

Summary

24 Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxes found in brickearth digging at Dorney Wood

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

24 HAND AXES FOUND IN WORKINGS AT NGR OR FROM CASUAL WORKINGS ON NEARBY GOLF COURSE. ALL ARE SHARP & PATINATED. MOST ARE POINTED SHAPE. FOUND MOSTLY I N FIRST DECADE OF C20. (B1-3).
0 AT BCM, 5 AT READING MUSEUM, 8 IN TREACHER COLLECTION, OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, & 1 IN BRITISH MUSEUM (B2-3).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey, deep tree-covered pit opposite gates to Kiln Wood, other pits existed on Dorney Wood Golf Course(B6-7)

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC7201 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1959. 'PALEOLITHS FROM BRICKEARTH IN SE BUCKS', IN RECS OF BUCKS 16 PP274-288. Vol 16.
  • <2>SBC2053 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
  • <3>SBC17081 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN PP229-230.
  • <6>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-2 No.24 p67.
  • <7>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. MTV-2 No.24.

Location

Grid reference SU 93700 85700 (point)
Civil Parish BURNHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

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  • Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)

Record last edited

Mar 2 2009 3:34PM

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