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Name:Palaeolithic flint flakes and handaxe
HER Number:MLI60506
Type of record:Find Spot

Summary

Palaeolithic flint flakes and handaxe

Grid Reference:SK 908 670
Map Sheet:SK96NW
Parish:DODDINGTON AND WHISBY, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

Full description

2 CLACTONIAN FLAKES AND 1 ACHEULIAN HANDAXE, FOUND IN GRAVEL PIT AT WHISBY C1942 BY PROFESSOR SWINNERTON. {1}
Two much rolled 'Clactonian flakes' and a handaxe from Whisby.{3}


<1> SMR FILE, SK 96 NW:S - (Index). SLI2988.

<2> OS card index, SK 96 NW:5, DA, 1962 (Index). SLI5544.

<3> Roe, Derek A., 1968, A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, Thorpe on the Hill, p.191 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI6828.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Events

  • Site visit to gravel pit

Sources and further reading

<1>Index: SMR FILE. DODDINGTON AND WHISBY. SK 96 NW:S -.
<2>Index: OS card index. Doddington and Whisby. SK 96 NW:5, DA, 1962.
<3>Bibliographic Reference: Roe, Derek A.. 1968. A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. Thorpe on the Hill, p.191.