Find Spot record 0151200000 - LANGLEY BRICKWORKS

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19 Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxes found in Langley Pit

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Type and Period (1)

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

Description

Hand axes found in brickearth and gravel (Taplow Terrace) of Langley Pit. 17 are pointed, lengths: 4 less than 4cm, 10 are 10-15cm, 3 are 15-21cm. Also 1 sub-cordate, 9cm long and 1 cordate, 13cm long. All rolled and stained, so prob from gravel layer. From Evans (British Museum) and Sturge (Ashmolean Museum) collections (B1,B3-4).
NGR to Langley Brick Works (B5).
Langley Marsh and Langley Brickworks, Wexham. The palaeoliths consist of 19 Acheulean handaxes, one cleaver and two Levaloisian flakes (B6).

TQ 012801. Twenty handaxes and two Levalloisian flakes have been found at Slough and Langley Brickworks, Langley Marish. All the finds are in the BM (Sturge Colln) except for two handaxes in the Ashmolean Museum (Evans Colln) (B3).
No further information on above finds. The extent of the brickworks as shown on OS 6" 1932 is banded yellow on record 6". This area is now largely reclaimed, but extraction is still continuing in area TQ 008800. No fresh finds reported (B7).

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 (10)

<1>SBC20460 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1905. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume I. Volume 1. p179.
<2>SBC7187 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1936. 'THE PALAEOLITHIC SEQUENCE AT IVER, BUCKS', IN ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL 16 PP420-443. Vol 16.
<3>SBC17084 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN PP238-239.
<4>SBC2053 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
<5>SBC10369 Map: OS 1932/38 PROVISIONAL EDITION SIX INCH MAP.
<6>SBC22555 Unpublished document: Greater London Council. 1977. The Archaeology of the Colne Valley Park. Table 2.
<7>SBC29435 Unpublished document: J R Linge. Field Investigators Comments - F1 JRL 24-JUN-74.
<8>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. MTV 3/6.
<9>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8. p71.
<10>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1998.

Location

Grid reference	TQ 010 800 (point)
Civil Parish	WEXHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

LEVALLOIS FLAKE / HANDAXE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)

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Related Events/Activities (2)

Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)
Event - Survey: The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project (EBC18748)

Record last edited

Apr 9 2026 2:54PM