Monument record 0191000000 - STATION PIT, TAPLOW

Summary

Nineteenth to twentieth century records of Station gravel pit

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Planning Notification Area: Early Palaeolithic deposits

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Type and Period (1)

GRAVEL PIT (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD? to 1999 AD?)

Description

Plan Form - IRREGULAR
PLEISTOCENE, IRON AGE & ROMAN FINDS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED FROM STATION PIT & GIBBONS PIT SINCE C.1837 (B1-10).
GIBBONS PIT WAS PROBABLY THE W EXTENSION OF STATION PIT, OR THE ONE USED AS CORPORATION TIP (B5).
PIT DISUSED & OVERGROWN (1953). NO SURFACE FINDS NOTED & NO FURTHER INFO (B11).
SEE CASS 01912.
Negative geoarchaeological watching brief carried out by Wessex Archaeology between March 2007 and May 2008 during gravel extraction at adjacent quarry (Taplow Quarry, Berry Hill Farm). No Palaeolothic artefacts or features were recovered but 9 sections of the Taplow Terrace and Langley Silt/Brickearth deposits were recorded. See reports for detail (B14-16).
Station Pit (GWR Pit) was a large pit originally occupied by a temporary terminus of the Great Western mainline to Bristol in the 1850s. Deposits were Taplow Gravel. In 1995-6 the site was recorded as an open, levelled pit used as a rugby field. Assessed as a Lower Palaeolithic find spot of particular importance (B17-18).

Sources (19)

<1>SBC16368 Bibliographic reference: WALKER J W 1931 HISTORY OF MAIDENHEAD.
<2>SBC15142 Article in serial: L Treacher. 1896-7. 'PALAEOLITHIC MAN IN EAST BERKS', IN BERKS, BUCKS & OXON ARCH JNL 2 PP16,18. Vol 2.
<3>SBC7116 Article in serial: W B R King & K P Oakley. 1936. 'PLEISTOCENE SUCCESSION IN THE LOWER PARTS OF THE THAMES VALLEY', IN PREHISTORIC SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS (NEW SERIES) 2 PP61-62,73.
<4>SBC2041 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
<5>SBC17052 Bibliographic reference: John Wymer. 1968. LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P228.
<6>SBC12451 Unpublished document: R F H SUMMERS 1947 CORRESPONDENCE & DRAWINGS.
<7>SBC5603 Article in serial: GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE (NEW SERIES) 8. 8.
<8>SBC7675 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 3 P282.
<9>SBC1224 Unpublished document: 1962. BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER. COIN IDENTIFIED BY DR. C. E.KING, ASHMOLEUM MUSEUM, OXFORD, 1984.
<10>SBC6691 Unpublished document: J WYMER & R F DENNINGTON, MAY 1956 (VIA MR D MILLER, MAY 1981) & SEE LETTER JW TO RFD (FILE.
<11>SBC11179 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SW 04 & SU 98 SW 46..
<12>SBC6690 Unpublished document: J RUTLAND NOTEBOOK, IN COUNTY RECORD OFFICE.
<13>SBC7098 Article in serial: D King. 1986. 'PETROLOGY, DATING & DISTRIBUTION OF QUERNS & MILLSTONES', IN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY BULLETIN 23 PP65-126. No 23.
<14>SBC23150 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2007. Taplow Quarry: Interim Geoarchaeological Report 1.
<15>SBC23151 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2007. Taplow Quarry: Interim Geoarchaeological Report 2.
<16>SBC23149 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2008. Taplow Quarry: Geoarchaeological Report 3 (Final).
<17>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-2 No.35 pp68-9.
<18>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.35.
<19>SBC25322 Digital archive: Portable Antiquities Scheme. 2020. Information from Portable Antiquities Scheme database.

Location

Grid reference	SU 91500 81400 (point)
Civil Parish	TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire