Find Spot record 0212000000 - MILL END, YEWDEN.

Summary

Worked flints including probable microburins and cores were found exposed by burrowing near the bank of the Thames. Mesolithic to Bronze Age flint blades, cores, microburins and scrapers.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Map

Type and Period (2)

  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Early Neolithic - 10000 BC to 4000 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to 1st Century Roman - 500000 BC to 43 AD)

Description

1 FLINT, 1 SCRAPER, OVER 10 SMALL BLADES & CORE, FOUND IN THAMES BALLAST, MILL END (B1). WORKED FLINTS INCLUDING ?MICROBURINS & CORES, FOUND IN BANK OF THAMES, EXPOSED BY BURROWING. FOUND BY MR R J LINGE, 1974, AND LEFT IN SITU (B2).

Worked flints including probable micro-burins and cores were found exposed by burrowing near the bank of the Thames at SU 7858 8481 and SU 7862 8480, during field investigation (B3).

Inserted 1998 (B4).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC6041 Bibliographic reference: HAMBLEDEN MUSEUM LOAN COLLECTION (MATERIAL LISTED BY G C LAMB, 1978).
  • <2>SBC11107 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 78 SE 31.
  • <3>SBC27518 Verbal communication: J R Linge. 1974. Field Investigators Comments.
  • <4>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 7860 8480 (40m by 10m)
Civil Parish HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Finds (7)

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
  • CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • MICROBURIN (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to 1st Century Roman - 500000 BC to 43 AD)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to 1st Century Roman - 500000 BC to 43 AD)

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12140)

Record last edited

Jun 9 2025 3:42PM

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