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Lower to Middle Palaeolithic handaxe found in Chenies parish

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

Description

Dimensions - Length 0123 mm Width 0083
MID ACHEULIAN HANDAXE, WELL FINISHED WITH SOFTHAMMER TECHNIQUE, IRREGULAR PROFILE. MOTTLED OCHRE PATINA, LIGHTLY ROLLED. FOUND BY MR H.W.PAUL,JULY 1935, UNLOCATED WITHIN PARISH (BIBL1,2,3).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B5-6)


(TQ 0198) A Palaeolithic handaxe from Chenies is in Aylesbury Museum (B7).
No exact provenance. An isolated surface find. Bucks Co Mus (Acc No 171.35) (B8).

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 (9)

  • <1>SBC1334 Bibliographic reference: BCM CAS RECORD CARD 1415.
  • <2>SBC1092 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER,171.1935.
  • <3>SBC1560 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX: CHENIES.
  • <4>SBC3214 Bibliographic reference: CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO HANDAXE FROM CHENIES, C.HAWKES AND H.W.PAUL (CAS ENVELOPE FILE 1415)..
  • <5>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site CV-3 No.16 p171.
  • <6>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. CV-3 No.16 (17?).
  • <7>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8. p28.
  • <8>SBC28365 Unpublished document: J Wymer. 1968. Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain, as represented by the Thames Valley. p250.
  • <9>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1998.

Location

Grid reference TQ 02000 98000 (point)
Civil Parish CHENIES, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

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

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC13044)

Record last edited

Apr 14 2026 1:17PM

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