Find Spot record MDO6803 - Palaeolithic hand axe from Buddens Pit, Poole

Acheulian handaxes recorded by Bernard Calkin from Buddens Pit. Palaeolithic implements found in Budden's Pit include 39 handaxes and 81 flakes as well as other flakes. The site is an extensive disused gravel pit. Lower Palaeolithic material including 155 handaxes, 5 roughouts, 2 cores, 281 flakes and 2 miscellaneous objects were recorded from Budden's Pit, Canford Heath, Canford Magna and Red Gravel Pit.

(Area centred SZ 031970) Palaeoliths found in Budden's Pit, now in the Calkin collection at the British Museum. <1>

The Palaeoliths were all of flint and of Acheulian type and were generally classifiable as handaxes. The site is an extensive disused gravel pit. No finds were made during field investigation. <2>

Finds from Budden's Pit include 39 handaxes and 81 flakes as well as other flints. The finds are now in the British Museum. <3>

<1> Calkin, J B, 1950, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (J B Calkin 1950) (Map). SWX2957.

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 05-DEC-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<2.1> Calkin, J B, Oral: J B Calkin (Hon Corr), 5.12.55 (Verbal communication). SWX8260.

<3> Roe, Derek A, 1968, A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites, 48 (Monograph). SWX4454.

<4> Wymer, J, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: the Upper Thames Valley, the Kennet Valley and the Solent drainage system, 124 (Monograph). SWX4473.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457989 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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