Find Spot record 0202600000 - BURNHAM GORE
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Type and Period (1)
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Description
1 POINTED AXE, 1 UNFINISHED AXE MADE ON LARGE NODULE, 1 AXE TRIMMING FLAKE. (DESCRIBED & SKETCHED)(B1-2).
21 PALEOLITHS, PRESUMED TO BE FROM BURNHAM GORE DEPOSITED AT BCM (B3).
OLD GRAVEL PIT IN BOYN HILL TERRACE, MARKED BY DEPRESSION. DURING DRAIN DIGGING IN SAME SPREAD MANY FINDS MADE (B2,B4).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B5-6).
(SU 9383) Palaeolithic implements found at Burnham Gore comprise:- one handaxe and a roughout, and one unretouched flake. Now in Aylesbury Museum (B7).
SU 924828 A depression marks the site of this extensive old gravel pit in the Boyn Hill Terrace. Two pointed handaxes and a flake worked to resemble a handaxe from here are all in Bucks Co Mus Sericold Colln (Acc No 35.62) (B2).
Gravel pit disused; no further information (B8).
NRHE Insert 1998 (B9).
Sources (9)
- <1>SBC2050 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX/ BCM ACCESSIONS REGISTER 1962.
- <2>SBC17054 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P231.
- <3>SBC1523 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum. BCM LOANS REGISTER.
- <4>SBC11197 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SW 70.
- <5>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-2 No.30 p68.
- <6>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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.30.
- <7>SBC20347 Article in monograph: D A Roe. 1968. 'A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites', in CBA Research Report 8.
- <8>SBC28316 Verbal communication: N K Blood. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 NKB 09-JUL-74.
- <9>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).
Location
| Grid reference | SU 92400 82800 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BURNHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire |
Finds (3)
- AXE TRIMMING FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- ROUGHOUT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (2)
- Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)
- Event - Survey: The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project (EBC18748)
Record last edited
Nov 13 2025 11:48AM
