Find Spot record 0012700000 - FIR TREE COTTAGE,GARDEN

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Palaeolithic flint flake found in garden

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  • FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)

Description

PALAEOLITHIC FLAKE, POSSIBLY HAND AXE TRIMMING FLAKE, LIGHTLY ROLLED, FOUND BY MR A HALESTRAP, FIR TREE COTTAGE, SINGLEBOROUGH, 1963. In Bucks County Museum Acc No 76.63(B1-2). FIR TREE COTTAGE, FORMER HOME OF MR HALESTRAP, IS AT NGR (B3).


Fir Tree Cottage is at SP 76603183; Mr Halestrap lived there until c 1964. No further information regarding the precise site (the gardens are extensive) (B4).
NRHE insert 1998 (B5)

Sources (5)

  • <1>SBC1212 Bibliographic reference: BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER,76-63.
  • <2>SBC13637 Article in serial: Vol 17. 1963. RECS OF BUCKS 1963 17 P205.
  • <3>SBC10573 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. 1974. OS FIELD INVESTIGATOR, 1974.
  • <4>SBC28999 Verbal communication: N K Blood. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 18-APR-74.
  • <5>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1998.

Location

Grid reference SP 76600 31830 (point)
Civil Parish GREAT HORWOOD, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • FLAKE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12860)

Record last edited

Feb 2 2026 7:54AM

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