Find Spot record 0205400000 - CHILTERN HILLS ROAD

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Palaeolithic flint handaxe found in Seer Green

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0180 mm Width 0092
SHARP, POINTED HAND AXE OF ACHEULEAN TYPE FROM NEAR SEER GREEN, FOUND C.15CM BELOW TURF UNDER GRAVEL BALLAST, BY MR A DAY (B1).
LOCATION GIVEN HERE AS 'LAVENDON', CHILTERN HILLS ROAD, DURING HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. TIP BROKEN (B2). 'LAVENDON' NOT LOCATED, NGR TO CENTRE OF ROAD (B3).
DESCRIBED (B4).
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B5-6)

Sources (6)

  • <1>SBC461 Article in serial: ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL 7 1927 PP314-315.
  • <2>SBC2053 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX.
  • <3>SBC12031 Verbal communication: PIKE A R FIELD VISIT 29 JUNE 1978.
  • <4>SBC17076 Bibliographic reference: John Wymer. 1968. LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P251.
  • <5>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site CH-2 No.9 p180.
  • <6>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. CH-2 No.9.

Location

Grid reference SU 93300 90700 (point)
Civil Parish BEACONSFIELD, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire
Civil Parish SEER GREEN, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

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  • Event - Intervention: Disturbed find (EBC16802)

Record last edited

Mar 4 2009 10:52AM

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