Find Spot record 631/0/20 - Unlocated prehistoric finds ("from Borough Hill")

Prehistoric finds

{1} 5 hammerstones from Borough Hill Camp; held by Ashmolean Museum.

{3} "Flint implement [see AO:60:381:5] discovered on Borough Hill by T.J. George (Northampton Museum)"

{4} A Palaeolithic implement has been discovered on the hill - a small twisted ovate of developed middle Acheulean type.
In 1932 Edgar made a 'representative collection of flint implements' from within the hillfort. These included leaf-shaped and tanged arrowheads, circular and oval scrapers and notched flakes as well as cores and waste flakes. A chipped flint Neolithic axe is also recorded.
Bronze Age discoveries include three looped palstaves. One was found before 1893 and the other two are labelled 'from Borough Hill Camp'. Part of a bronze sword blade in the school's collection is also labelled 'from Borough Hill Camp'.
Among other unlocated finds from the hill are a metal 'kettle' and quantities of teeth and bones.

{6} Location of finds: Daventry School.

{13} Two palaeolithic hand-axes found between 1904-1911. One listed under 631/0/0 (MNN18826).

{15} A further hand-axe described as a small boldly flaked twisted ovate (Middle Acheulian) from Borough Hill, is in Northampton Museum.

{16} Socketed axe found near Daventry.

{17} Bronze palstave found near Daventry. Deposited in Northampton Museum [Is this the same implement?]

{18} Later Bronze Age socketed axe listed from Daventry. [Daventry is not mentioned in the list of Palstaves from Northampton.]

{19} Northampton Museum records list 2 Later Bronze Age socketed axes and 1 Palstave from 'Daventry' (no precise sites). The former are held by this museum. The latter is in the Dryden Collection in the British Museum.

<1> Ashmolean Museum Accession Register, (checked) (Catalogue). SNN10110.

<2> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, (unchecked) (Archive). SNN115.

<3> Edgar W., 1923, Borough Hill & Its History, p.20+pl.4 (unchecked) (Book). SNN47010.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, pp.63-5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<5> POSNANSKY M., 1963, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Industries of the English East Midlands, p.382-3+366 (unchecked) (Article). SNN46912.

<6> Brown A.E., Catalogue of Daventry School Collection, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN47471.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP56SE15 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<8> Jackson D, 1996-7, Further Evaluation at Borough Hill, Daventry, Northants, p.7 (checked) (Article). SNN104072.

<9> Northampton Museum Records, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN126.

<13> Wymer J., 1996, The English Rivers Palaeolithic Project, The Great Ouse Drainage and The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds, p.66 (checked) (Report). SNN76389.

<14> ROE D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of Palaeolithic Sites, p.243 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN11100.

<15> Chapman, DJ, 1960, Field Investigators Comments, F1 DJC 28-OCT-60 (Note). SNN112959.

<16> Ryland, W, Adkins, D, and Serjeantson, R M, 1902, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p. 143 (Series). SNN100368.

<17> George T.J., 1904, An Archaeological Survey of Northamptonshire, p. 13 (Index). SNN10170.

<18> 1953, The Archaeological Journal (110), p. 178 (Journal). SNN59424.

<19> Colquhoun, FD, 1969, Field investigators comments (Notes). SNN112950.

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