Find Spot record 0154901000 - ALMOND'S PIT, LENT RISE

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Lower to Middle Palaeolithic handaxes found in Almond's Pit

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Type and Period (1)

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

Description

NUMEROUS HAND AXES DESCRIBED & DRAWN FROM ALMOND'S PIT (SOME MAY HAVE COME FROM ANY OF THE 3 LENT RISE PITS: HAYCOCK'S & STOMP ROAD)(B1-3,B5-6).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B7-8)



(SU 931818) Two Palaeolithic handaxes from Pond Pit, Stomp Road, Burnham, are in the British Museum and the BM (Nat Hist) (B9).

Pond Pit not located (B10).
NRHE Insert 1998 (B11).

Sources (10)

  • <1>SBC7195 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1940. 'PALAEOLITHS FROM THE GRAVELS OF THE LOWER BOYN HILL TERRACE', IN ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL 20 PP245-271. Vol 20.
  • <2>SBC11188 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SW 20 & SU 98 SW 79 (FILED).
  • <3>SBC17048 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN PP233,236.
  • <5>SBC2041 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
  • <6>SBC1280 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum. BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTERS.
  • <7>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-2 No.33 p68.
  • <8>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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.33.
  • <9>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8.
  • <10>SBC28345 Verbal communication: N K Blood. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 11-JUL-74.
  • <11>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference SU 92610 81940 (point)
Civil Parish BURNHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

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

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Nov 13 2025 2:04PM

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