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| Name: | Palaeolithic Handaxe, Redlands Aggregates Hykeham Quarry |
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| HER Number: | MLI60504 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Summary
Acheulean Palaeolithic handaxe, found in 1989 on a reject heap of the Redlands Aggregates Hykeham gravel quarry.
| Grid Reference: | SK 935 674 |
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| Map Sheet: | SK96NW |
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| Parish: | NORTH HYKEHAM, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
An Acheulean Palaeolithic handaxe was found in 1989, on a reject heap of the Redlands Aggregates Hykeham gravel quarry. The axe was made from a worn rolled cobble of quartzite, extracted from the Balderton Sand and Gravel (Ipswichian Interglacial) layer of the quarry, and was similar to finds from the Hilton Terrace Gravels near Derby. {1}{2}
<1> Dr Allan Brandon, 1989, Notes and Photographs, 06/12/1989 (Correspondence). SLI1224.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1996, The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 9 (Great Ouse Drainage) and 12 (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds, p.130 (Unpublished Document). SLI4828.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Correspondence: Dr Allan Brandon. 1989. Notes and Photographs. 06/12/1989. |
| <2> | Unpublished Document: Wessex Archaeology. 1996. The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project: Regions 9 (Great Ouse Drainage) and 12 (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds. p.130. |
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