Find Spot record 0150900000 - MARBLE HEAD PIT, WEXHAM

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Lower to Middle Paleolithic flint artefacts found in Marble Head Pit, possibly in Wexham

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Type and Period (1)

  • ARTEFACT SCATTER (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Description

ARTEFACTS FROM TREACHER COLLECTION. LABEL OMITS PROVENANCE APART FROM WEXHAM, BUT SAYS IT WAS PIT NICKNAMED 'MARBLE HEAD PIT' ON BOYN HILL TERRACE: LOCATION POSS SE OF BERRY FM.(BI1) NAME NOT KNOWN LOCALLY & NO LARGE SCALE GRAVEL EXTRACTIOIN AREA. OTHER FORMER PITS AT SU98878230 & 994582239(BI2)

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC17075 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P239.
  • <2>SBC11176 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SE 19 (FILED).
  • <3>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-3 No.1 p71.
  • <4>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. MTV-3 No.1.

Location

Grid reference SU 98900 82800 (point)
Civil Parish WEXHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)

Record last edited

Mar 3 2009 10:48AM

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