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| HHER Number: | 284 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | PALAEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS, ?RANSOM'S PIT, HITCHIN |
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Summary - not yet available
| Grid Reference: | TL 189 284 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL12NE |
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| Parish: | North Hertfordshire (Non Civil Parish), North Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 400000 BC to 8501 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Undated)
Full description
Palaeolithic implements, comprising: 8 axes, St Albans Mus (Acc A900 93-99); implement, St Albans Mus (Acc A92); 7 trimmed flakes, St Albans Mus (Acc A124-30); 2 arrowheads, St Albans Mus (Acc 142-3); 80 flint implements, Letchworth Mus (Acc 1486-7, 1497, 1480, 1485, 1488, 1491, 1495-6). Found by William Ransom in the late 19th century.
According to <1>, the main sources of such implements in the period were the two brickyards, Ransom's and Jeeves'. Ransom's brickyard (both old and new?) was at Hitchin Hill centred on the given NGR. For Jeeves', see [279].
<2> describes the collection from the two pits as 'numerous thin, triangular to sub-ovate hand-axes of Hoxne type, a few cordate and ovate hand-axes, several cleavers, a fair number of flake-tools of High Lodge type, and miscellaneous forms', mostly in unworn condition, and classed as 'late middle or early upper Acheulian influenced by Clactonian'.
30 handaxes from Ransom's brickyard are in the Ashmolean <3>.
Letchworth Museum Catalogue (Index). SHT6511.
Procs Geol Assoc 14 (1896), 415 (Bibliographic reference). SHT9031.
Procs Geol Assoc 23 (1912), 221 (Bibliographic reference). SHT9032.
Roe, Derek A, 1968, British lower and middle Palaeolithic handaxe groups; Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 34, 1-82, - p7, 16 (Article in serial). SHT1712.
<1> Reid, Clement, 1898, The Palaeolithic deposits at Hitchin and their relation to the glacial epoch; Trans Herts Nat Hist Soc 10, 14-22 (Article in serial). SHT2264.
<2> Oakley, K P, 1947, Early man in Hertfordshire; Trans Herts Nat Hist Soc 22/5, 247-56, - p250 (Article in serial). SHT6350.
<3> Miles, Denis, 1977, Index of flints and bronzes in Ashmolean Museum (Unpublished document). SHT2972.
<4> Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith J, & Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Tony, 2008, The archaeology of Hitchin from prehistory to the present, - p4-5 (Bibliographic reference). SHT2527.
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in serial: Roe, Derek A. 1968. British lower and middle Palaeolithic handaxe groups; Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 34, 1-82. - p7, 16. |
| --- | Index: Letchworth Museum Catalogue. |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: Procs Geol Assoc 14 (1896), 415. |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: Procs Geol Assoc 23 (1912), 221. |
| <1> | Article in serial: Reid, Clement. 1898. The Palaeolithic deposits at Hitchin and their relation to the glacial epoch; Trans Herts Nat Hist Soc 10, 14-22. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Oakley, K P. 1947. Early man in Hertfordshire; Trans Herts Nat Hist Soc 22/5, 247-56. - p250. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Miles, Denis. 1977. Index of flints and bronzes in Ashmolean Museum. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith J, & Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Tony. 2008. The archaeology of Hitchin from prehistory to the present. - p4-5. |
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