Limpsfield area

Preliminary reassessment by .J F Cotton, D J Field and Pat Nicolaysen of major collection'of Palaeolithic material now in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford. It-includes some 558 artefacts of which nearly 450 are complete or fragmentary handaxes. Most of the material came from on or near the surface of the Greensand or superficial deposts of brickearth, except for a group from a gravel pit. In the following list of sites the first number is the total of artefacts, with handaxes in brackets: Ballards (around TQ418 528) 1 (1); Bramble's Cross 5 (3); Briar's Cross (around TQ 417 521) 3 (2); Brice's or Bryce's Cross 34 (23); Broomlands (around TQ 421 538) 10 (8); Chapel Field 3 (2); Chart or Chart Farm (and variants) (arour d TQ 428519) 36 (30); Coomber's Field 1 (1); Limpsfield 83 (68); Limpsfield Common Gravel 1'4 (and variants) (around TQ 418.523) 57 (45); Lockhurst 5 (5); Lombarden (around TQ 421 518) 43 (34); Paine's or Payne's Hill (around TQ 412 517) 2 (2); Ridlands (around TQ 422 522) 234(193); Tenchleys (around TQ 420 516) 41 (24). (194)
Year: 
1984
ID: 
1948
NGR: 
TQ400520
Borough: 
NGR range: 
40, 52