Resource class palaeostar:Site Url https://collections.durham.ac.uk/s/palaeostar/item/189 Title Hitchin References

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Hill, W. 1891. Our forgotten lake. Journal of the Hitchin Natural History Club 12: 93–97.

Hill, W. 1908. On a deep channel of Drift at Hitchin (Hertfordshire). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 64: 8–24.

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Reid, C. 1898. The Palaeolithic deposits at Hitchin and their relation to the Glacial Epoch. Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club 10: 14–22.

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Condition Fresh Heavily Rolled Lightly Rolled Rolled Shape NA Ovate Point Typology D E F G J JK K NA Country UK Region Hertfordshire Raw material Flint Type Fragment Handaxe Roughout Unifacial Handaxe Date MIS 11 --