Find Spot record 0235700000 - SEER GREEN HOLT

Summary

Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe found in Seer Green

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  • None recorded

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  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Dimensions - Length 82mm.
FOUND BY GILES COOPER FROM N SIDE OF RAILWAY CUTTING, PRESENTED TO BCM 1975. SMALL POINTED HANDAXE ACHEULIAN TYPE POSSIBLY LATE. WHITE PATINA IRON STAINING ON RIDGES (B2).

Sources (4)

  • <1>SBC6246 Bibliographic reference: J F Head. 1955. Early Man in South Buckinghamshire. p165.
  • <2>SBC9306 Bibliographic reference: MR G COOPER AND MEF OCT 1975.
  • <3>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site CV-3 No.24 p172.
  • <4>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. CV-3 No.24.

Location

Grid reference SU 96600 91000 (point)
Civil Parish SEER GREEN, Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12836)

Record last edited

Nov 22 2024 10:58PM

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