Find Spot record MDO47457 - Palaeolithic implements found in Kings Park, Bournemouth

Lower Palaeolithic implements including around 300 handaxes, 4 roughouts, 11 retouched flakes, 21 flakes, 7 Levallois flakes and 4 miscellaneous objects were found at King's Park, Boscombe. The area consisted of gravel working with several large pits one of which is known as Thistlebarrow Gravel Pit. The geology in the area consists mainly of Terrace 10 Gravel but possibly Gravel 9.

<1> Roe, Derek A, 1968, A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites, 76, 89 (Monograph). SWX4454.

<1.1> Bury, H, 1924, Some Aspects of the Hampshire Plateau Gravels. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, 4 (1), 15-41, 23 (Article in serial). SDO19060.

<2> Wymer, J, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: the Upper Thames Valley, the Kennet Valley and the Solent drainage system, 133 (Monograph). SWX4473.

<2.1> Roe, Derek A, 1981, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain, 211 (Monograph). SDO20320.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1105906 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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