Find Spot record 0156501000 - TAPLOW/TAPLOW PIT

30 HAND AXES FROM TAPLOW, NO CLOSER PROVENANCE. AT BCM (B1-3).
SEVERAL MUSEUMS POSSESS PALAEOLITHIC HAND-AXES JUST MARKED TAPLOW. PROBABLY THEY CAME FROM THE STATION PIT, BUT LYNCH HILL TERRACE GRAVEL EXISTS IN THE PARISH, SO THEY MUST BE REGARDED WITH CAUTION (B4).
4 FICREM AXES (B1).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B10-11).


Bucks Co Museum list the following finds from the general area of Taplow, and their present location.
Bucks Co Museum:- 30 handaxes, including 16 Acheulian, & 4 flakes including 2 Levelloisian, Find dates range from 1887 to 1909. Acc Nos :-554.05, 27 & 28, 62, 194.57 & 30-34. 62.
Reading Museum:- 8 handaxes, including 1 Acheulian, & 1 flake. Find dates range form 1880 to 1909. Acc Nos :-
Equation not keyed.
Oxford University Museum:- (Treacher Coll'n) 18 handaxes and 2 flakes,including 1 Clactonian. (No further details).
Ashmolean Museum:- 1 Levelloisian Flake. (Overy Coll'n) Acc No 1964 260.
Cambridge A&E Museum:- 1 flake,Acc No 94.122.
British Museum:- 2 handaxes,Acc No 1915 12 17 54.
Other locations known, but of which no details are available:- Sturge Coll'n - British Museum, Eton College, Ipswich Museum & London Museum (B2).
(SU 9182) The following Pa implements have been found at Taplow:- 62 hand axes, 3 retouched and 5 unretouched flakes, 1 worked fragment and 2 Levallois flakes. Most are in Aylesbury and Oxford University Museums while others are in Cambridge (A&E) Ipswich, London, Reading and Stroud Museums, as well as a private collection (B9).

(SU 9282) Palaeolithic implements found in the general area of Hitcham, comprise:- 19 hand axes, 2 retouched and 1 unretouched flakes. In Aylesbury and the British Museums (B9).
Bucks County Museum Pa. Index lists 17 hand axes and 2 flakes from Hitcham now in Bucks County Museum (Acc nos 6.55, 545.05, 552.05) and the British Museum (B2)
No further information (B12).

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