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| HHER Number: | 4874 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | ARROWHEAD AND MICROLITHS, WYMONDLEY ROAD, HITCHIN |
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Summary - not yet available
| Grid Reference: | TL 193 289 |
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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 (Prehistoric - 8500 BC to 101 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 8500 BC to 101 BC)
Full description
An arrowhead and four microliths found at a house called 'The Chilterns', Chiltern Road, Hitchin <1>. This was a large house built on the south side of Wymondley Road in the late 19th century <3>, and not in fact in Chiltern Road; the site is now nos.26-28 Wymondley Road.
Possibly a duplicate of [287], which is Mesolithic.
<1> OS Records (Index). SHT8223.
<2> Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith J, & Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Tony, 2008, The archaeology of Hitchin from prehistory to the present, - p5 (Bibliographic reference). SHT2527.
<3> OS 25 inch map, 2nd edition (1897-1901), 1898 (Cartographic material). SHT8113.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Index: OS Records. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Keith J, & Fitzpatrick-Matthews, Tony. 2008. The archaeology of Hitchin from prehistory to the present. - p5. |
| <3> | Cartographic material: OS 25 inch map, 2nd edition (1897-1901). 1898. |
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