Find Spot record MDO6858 - Palaeolithic flint, Mount Talbot Brickworks, Poole

Palaeoliths found in 1931. Now in the Calkin Collection at the British Museum, Nos. B 181, 259, 327, 411. <2>

Mount Talbot Brickworks are still in use, but no one at the site knew of these finds, and the foreman knew of no finds
having been made during the last few years. <3>

Two handaxes and an unretouched flake were found at Mount Talbot, east of Alder Road. Now in the British Museum. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1934-38, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch four (Map). SDO11596.

(SZ 06289339) Palaeolithic Implements found AD 1931 (NAT)

<2> Calkin, J B, 1948, Annotated Record Map Corr. 6 (J B Calkin 1948) (Map). SWX3642.

<2.1> The Geological Society of London, 1933, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 321 (Serial). SDO17670.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 15-NOV-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Roe, Derek A, 1968, A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites, 53 (Monograph). SWX4454.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458166 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 16 2022 2:23PM