Find Spot record 0157200000 - BURNHAM BEECHES

Summary

Scatter of Palaeolithic and Neolithic artefacts found in Burnham Beeches - Palaeolithic implements were found in the general area of Burnham Beeches and comprise of at least 411 hand axes, 14 roughouts, 2 cores, 49 retouched flakes and 101 flakes and 9 worked fragments.

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Archaeological Notification Area: Early Palaeolithic deposits (DBC9835)

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Type and Period (3)

LITHIC SCATTER (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
LITHIC SCATTER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)

Description

PALEOLITHIC & NEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS FOUND AT VARIOUS TIMES IN BURNHAM BEECHES (NO CLOSER PROVENANCE) (B1-6).

(SU 9585 ). Palaeolithic implements found in the general area of Burnham Beeches comprise:- 411 hand axes and 14 roughouts, 2 cores, 49 retouched and 101 unretouched flakes, and 9 worked fragments. Most are in the BM but others are distributed in Aylesbury, Cambridge (A & E) Hull, Ashmolean, Oxford University and York Cottage Sandringham museums (B9).

General Area of Burnham Beeches.
Bucks County Museum, Pa Index, lists the following finds and their locations.
Ashmolean Museum:- 6 hand axes from the Campbell-Thompson Bequest. Acc Nos 1941: 886 & 889, 194: 883, 1955. 66 a-c.
British Museum:- (Lacaille Colln) 84 hand axes, including 18 Acheulian type, 81 flakes, including 28 of Clactonian type, and 2 cores, Acc Nosfor four axes are:- 1940. 4.8.1.& 1944 2.7.3.
Oxford University Museum:- Unspecified No in O Roe's Burnham Beeches List of material in Treacher Coll'n.
Buck County Museum:- 1 hand axe Acc No 547.05, and 1 flake found 1934 Acc No 38.62. 2 flakes from F Underhills coll'n are also held.
Other Pa material from this area is in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (B10)

NRHE Insert 1998 (B11).

Sources (11)

<1>SBC2055 Article in serial: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX / B.C.M ACCESSIONS REGISTER 1967/ RECS OF BUCKS 18 1967 P165.
<2>SBC1905 Bibliographic reference: BRITISH MUSEUM, DEC 1960.
<3>SBC642 Bibliographic reference: ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD, DEC 1960.
<4>SBC16348 Verbal communication: VISIT TO WINDSOR GUILDHALL MUSEUM, M E FARLEY & A R PIKE NOV 1979.
<5>SBC11201 Unpublished document: OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SW 88 AUG 1974.
<6>SBC2447 Unpublished document: CAS CARD 1572.
<7>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-2 Nos.26-27 pp67-8.
<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 Nos.26-27.
<9>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8.
<10>SBC28191 Verbal communication: J R Linge. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 JRL 21-AUG-74.
<11>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference	SU 95 85 (point)
Civil Parish	BURNHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (6)

ROUGHOUT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
RETOUCHED FLAKE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
HANDAXE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
FLAKE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
CORE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)

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Related Events/Activities (1)

Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)

Record last edited

Sep 18 2025 11:51AM