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CHER Number:00756
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Microliths, Buckworth

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 144 771
Parish:Buckworth, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Associated Finds:

  • BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
  • MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Full description

1. Microliths found; now in Norris Museum, St Ives
The present farmer knows nothing of the above finds and the museum has no further information.
2. The flints comprise 21 blades and flakes, 2 cores and 2 microliths.
this has not been catalogued by the museum so far, 20/10/1983


<1> St Ives Museum 2 1/2in record sheets (Index). SCB14231.

<2> Wymer, J.J. (ed.), 1977, Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites, p. 134 (Monograph). SCB15769.

<3> Baird, J., Field Investigator Comments, 23/2/71 (Verbal communication). SCB62256.

Sources and further reading

<1>Index: St Ives Museum 2 1/2in record sheets.
<2>Monograph: Wymer, J.J. (ed.). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic sites. p. 134.
<3>Verbal communication: Baird, J.. Field Investigator Comments. 23/2/71.