Find Spot record 631/0/0 - Prehistoric finds

{1} A small pointed palaeolithic hand axe was found in 1932 during the construction of the BBC transmitting station and thus must have come from SP588621.
A Neolithic axe, incomplete, of polished greeish-grey stone also came from the foundation trenches here.
Two Bronze Age socketted axes were also found.

{5} That both Bronze Age axes were buried together at such a depth would suggest they formed some kind of votive deposit.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.63 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> Wymer J., 1996, The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project, The Great Ouse Drainage and The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds, p.66 (checked) (Report). SNN76389.

<3> POSNANSKY M., 1963, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Industries of the English East Midlands, p.382-3 (unchecked) (Article). SNN46912.

<4> ROE D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of Palaeolithic Sites, p.243 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN11100.

<5> Jackson D, 1996-7, Further Evaluation at Borough Hill, Daventry, Northants, p.7 (checked) (Article). SNN104072.

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