Find Spot record 0239600000 - GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY PIT

Summary

Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint artefacts found in Great Western Railway pit

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  • ARTEFACT SCATTER (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Description

MOST ARTEFACTS FROM THIS PIT COLLECTED IN 1890'S BY TREACHER & ALLEN BROWN, THOUGH LACAILLE COLLECTED A FEW C.1930'S (B1-5,B7-10).
GWR PIT LOCATED FROM MAP IN B2 AS THAT SHOWN AT NGR (B6).
NOTE THAT ARCHIVE FORMS DO NOT RELATE DIRECTLY TO SUB-NUMBERS OF SMR SHEETS, BUT SHOULD ALL REFER TO 00:000.

Sources (12)

  • <1>SBC8220 Article in serial: MARSDEN J G 1925-28 NOTE ON LE MOUSTIER FLINTS FROM...IVER, IN PREHISTORIC SOCIETY OF EAST ANGLIA PROCEEDINGS 5 P297. Vol 5.
  • <2>SBC7187 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1936. 'THE PALAEOLITHIC SEQUENCE AT IVER, BUCKS', IN ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL 16 PP420-443. Vol 16.
  • <3>SBC7201 Article in serial: A D Lacaille. 1959. 'PALEOLITHS FROM BRICKEARTH IN SE BUCKS', IN RECS OF BUCKS 16 PP274-288. Vol 16.
  • <4>SBC2059 Index: BUCKS PALAEOLITHIC INDEX: IVER.
  • <5>SBC17079 Bibliographic reference: WYMER J 1968 LOWER PALAEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN BRITAIN P253.
  • <6>SBC12076 Map: PIKE A R FROM MAP IN BI2 & OS 1944 SIX INCH MAP P ROV. ED..
  • <7>SBC5863 Bibliographic reference: GREENWOOD P A (PASSMORE EDWARDS MUSEUM) DEC 1984 LETTER TO M E FARLEY(FILED.
  • <8>SBC2481 Bibliographic reference: CAS CARD 2396.
  • <9>SBC11865 Photograph: PHOTOS OF PIT IN GEOLOGICAL RECORDS CENTRE, BCM.
  • <10>SBC20118 Cartographic materials: Buckinghamshire County Council. 1995. Map extracted from the Inver Industrial Areas Link Road feasibility Study.
  • <11>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-3 No.13 p72.
  • <12>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey: Regions 7 and 10: North of the Thames and Warwickshire Avon. MTV-3 No.13.

Location

Grid reference TQ 03050 80000 (point)
Civil Parish IVER, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Intervention: (EBC12801)

Record last edited

Dec 4 2014 7:46AM

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