Find Spot record 1566100000 - North-west of the sports ground

Summary

Fifteen Mesolithic cores and eleven heavy flint tools have been found in Hambleden.

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 4000 BC)

Description

Fifteen Mesolithic cores and eleven heavy flint tools have been found in Hambleden (SU 7886). Some are in Hambleden Museum and others in the A E Peake collection in the Ashmolean Museum. (B1)

Hambleden museum closed down about 1961, and all the exhibits were transferred to Reading and Aylesbury Museums. The Bucks material in Aylesbury Museum, has not yetvbeen catalogued. (B2)

Insert 1998 (B3)

Sources (3)

  • <1>XYSBC27493 Serial: Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society. 1953. Oxoniensia. p3-4, 7. [Mapped feature: #51180 ]
  • <2>SBC27494 Verbal communication: J R Linge. 1974. Field Investigators Comments.
  • <3>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 78500 86500 (20m by 20m) Copied from NRHE GIS
Civil Parish HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (2)

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 4000 BC)
  • CORE (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 4000 BC)

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Record last edited

Jun 9 2025 9:25AM

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