Find Spot record 0225800001 - TRING ROAD ALLOTMENTS, AYLESBURY

Summary

Mesolithic to Neolithic flint flakes and tools found in allotment including 4 flint blades, a side scraper, core and other flakes

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Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)

Description

1 SIDE SCRAPER, 1 END SCRAPER, 1 OTHER SCRAPER, 1? PLANO-CONVEX KNIFE, 1 CORE, 3 BLADES - ALL OF NEOLITHIC DATE, FOUND IN AN ALLOTMENT. ALSO, A ?MESOLITHIC BLADE & ABOUT 40 FLAKES FOUND HERE (B1-5).
Unstratified flint flake recovered from Trench 1 at SP8304713502, during trial trenching and metal-detector survey carried out by AS&C in November and December 2009 in advance of an extension of the cemetery. See report for detail (B6).


Four flint blades, a side scraper, core and other flakes were found on an allotment in Aylesbury at SP83091356. They are possibly of Mesolithic-neolithic date (B7).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC8411 Verbal communication: MEF 1975 (MARCH) PERS COMM.
  • <2>SBC8429 Verbal communication: MEF 1977 (FEB) PERS COMM.
  • <3>SBC8431 Verbal communication: MEF 1977 (MAY) PERS COMM.
  • <4>SBC8440 Verbal communication: MEF 1978 (MARCH) PERS COMM.
  • <5>SBC8455 Verbal communication: MEF 1981 (SEPT) PERS COMM.
  • <6>SBC23603 Unpublished document: Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd. 2010. Archaeological Evaluation: Tring Road Allotments, Aylesbury.
  • <7>SBC29005 Article in serial: Michael Farley. 1975. 'Archaeological Notes from the Buckinghamshire County Museum', in Records of Buckinghamshire Vol 20, part 1, pp134-145. Vol 20, part 1. p134.
  • <8>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1998.

Location

Grid reference SP 83093 13563 (point)
Civil Parish AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (9)

  • END SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SIDE SCRAPER (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Late Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BLADE (Late Mesolithic - 7000 BC? to 4001 BC?)
  • CORE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FLAKE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • BLADE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

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Related Events/Activities (4)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12069)
  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12082)
  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12084)
  • Event - Intervention: Trial trenching (Ref: ATC 1183) (EBC17278)

Record last edited

Aug 5 2026 2:43PM

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