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Find Spot record MDR4309 - Stenson Gravel Pit: Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Handaxes

Type and Period (2)

  • (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
  • (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

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  • None recorded

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Abraded implements of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic types have been collected from the gravel pit at Stenson. (1) No further information. Authority 1 now dead, there are several active, and disused gravel pits at Stenson. (2)

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Article in serial: Armstrong, A. 1942. 'Palaeolithic Man in the North Midlands', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal. Volume 63. p60.
  • <2> Personal Observation: F1 FDC 23-SEP-66.

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Grid reference Centred SK 32 29 (1000m by 1000m) (Approximate)
Civil Parish TWYFORD AND STENSON, SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE

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  • EDR1341

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Record last edited

Nov 18 2003 4:47PM

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