Find Spot record 4930/0/1 - Quarried Pleistocene Mammoth Remains

Finds from Weedon Road Gravel Pits and Storton's Gravel Pit, and donated to Northampton Museum. Found "many years ago" and donated in April 1956.

{1} Finds from Weedon Road Gravel Pits and Storton's Gravel Pit, and donated to Northampton Museum.
Found "many years ago" and donated in April 1956.
Mammoth tooth donated (may have been the pit owner) on 26/02/1957.
Fossil mammoth tooth donated.
Mammoth tusk donated on 17/08/1957.
Mammoth tusk and a small mammoth tooth recovered from Harpole Gravel Pit (described as "south of Weedon Road") and Duston Gravel Pit (also south of Weedon Road) respectively. Donated in April 1959.
Two pieces of mammoth tusk donated 08/03/1967.
Possible mammoth tooth found in aggregate unloaded at Lumbertubs building site, and almost certainly from the Weedon Road Gravel Pits. Donated 20/08/1971.

{2} All finds located approximately to SP734602.

<1> Northampton Museum Records, Donations (unchecked) (Document). SNN104908.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.249 (checked) (Series). SNN77383.

<3> Williams J.H.; Shaw M.; Hardy S., 1978-1984, Northampton Development Corporation SMR Secondary Record Sheets, P154 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN108.

<4> Shaw M.; Williams J., 1971-1981, Northampton Development Corporation SMR Record Cards, P154 (checked) (Index). SNN133.

<5> 1957, Chronicle & Echo, (unchecked) (Article). SNN105058.

<6> Cutting Book, (unchecked) (Book). SNN105059.

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Nov 16 2023 4:12PM