Find Spot record 0159701006 - CSG 85

Summary

Mesolithic flint blade core found in a fieldwalking survey near the burnt mounds in Chalfont St Giles

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

1 KEELED BLADE CORE, OF GOOD QUALITY UNPATINATED FLINT, WITH PARALLEL BLADELET REMOVALS OVER ITS SURFACE. VERY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER COARSER FLINTS FROM SITE SO LIKELY TO BE INTRUSIVE. FOUND IN FIELDWALKING AND SURVEY OF 'BURNT MOUND'. FULL DETAILS AND LOCATION FILED (BIBL5)

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  • <1>SBC1507 Unpublished document: BCM CASS NO 1597.
  • <2>SBC6870 Article in serial: JOURNAL OF BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION NO.2 4. 1918.P279. REFERING TO REPORT IN DAILY CHRONIC.
  • <3>SBC11216 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD SU 99 SE 17.
  • <4>SBC5187 Verbal communication: FARLEY M E DEC 1984, PERS COMM FOLLOWING SITE VISIT.
  • <5>SBC14693 Article in serial: Simon Smithson. 1984. 'THE BURNT MOUNDS OF CHALFONT ST GILES: A SURVEY', IN RECS OF BUCKS 26 PP113-116. Vol 26.

Location

Grid reference SU 98630 94650 (point)
Civil Parish CHALFONT ST. GILES, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

Finds (2)

  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC? to 4001 BC?)

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12937)

Record last edited

Aug 8 1986 12:00AM

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