Monument record FLN 057 - Flixton Park Quarry, Flixton, Phase 5 (Palaeolithic)

1999: Two hand-axes (one rolled, the other in mint condition) found between 2m and 5m deep, near each other at TM 3013 8610, during gravel extraction from quarry by plant operator. Found on floor of quarry, which had been puddled around by plant movement etc so impossible to know precise stratigraphic origin. Details to follow in assessment report (S1). Drawings in archive.

Note: for further single finds of hand-axes from quarry see FLN 061 (found in Early Saxon Sunken Feature Building).

The drawings show items that would not be out of place in a later Acheulean or Late Middle Palaeolithic context. Without closeer inspection or better context information, both must be considered as possible. Having said that the slight "Tear drop" form, the flaking and the location of the relic platform on the likley flake made piece might suggest the latter", (S4)

For Pre-Anglian deposits see FLN 065 & 068 (part of 061 area): bone, plant remains, insects and very fresh struck flint [said to be rich assemblage of over 200 in situ struck flints - flakes and cores; (S5) details to follow] found in Pre-Anglian organic channel in pit by Danielle Schreve , Barbara Silva and Ian Candy of the Royal Holloway University…….[it] "appears that there are fresh early Middle Pleistocene artefacts, a rolled series of handaxes of undetermined age and Middle Palaeolithic all present in different parts of the quarry' (S2).

For mamalian remains see (FLN 111)