Find Spot record 0258000000 - 4 LOWER MEAD,IVER HEATH

Summary

Lower to Middle Palaeolithic flint handaxe found in a garden on Lower Mead

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (Undated)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0152 mm
Plan Form - TRIANGULAR
FLAT BUTTED, POINTED, OCHREOUS PATINA PREDOMINANTLY ON 1 FACE. SECTION FROM BUTT TO POINT ROUGHLY TRIANGULAR (CF WYMER'S TYPE DF IN LOWER PAL.ARCH.IN BRITAIN 1968). PHOTOGRAPHED, DRAWN. FOUND BY MR. BROWN; BROUGHT TO BCM FOR IDENTIFICATION BY SON, PAUL. FOUND IN GARDEN (BI1)
Site mentioned in English Rivers Palaeolithic Survey (B2-3)

Sources (3)

  • <1>SBC1950 Unpublished document: BROWN PAUL AND FARLEY M E, JAN 1977.
  • <2>SBC23341 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 7 (Thames) and 10 (Warwickshire Avon). Site MTV-3 No.10 p72.
  • <3>SBC23342 Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996.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.10.

Location

Grid reference TQ 02750 82880 (point)
Civil Parish IVER, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (1)

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

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: Surface find (EBC12766)

Record last edited

Mar 3 2009 10:55AM

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