Bitton

Pastscape

Neolithic flint implements found during gravel working [Area centred ST 6742 6912] Neolithic Flint Implements – “A gravel pit is being worked at the present time at the lower end of Holm Mead Lane, S.W. of Bitton. Part of the pit lies below the flood level of the Avon ... Neolithic flint implements are found in the subsoil over the gravel.” (1)
The gravel pit, which is now disused and partially infilled, was centred at ST 67466918. (2)
The finds were in the U.B.S.S. Museum, Bristol, but were destroyed by bombing in the 1939-45 war. (3)