TAPLOW STATION PIT
Location/Address
None recorded
Type
Other site, structure or landscape
Assets that cannot fit any of the other categories. This category includes sites of archaeological interest, where the original form and function may not be apparent without the use of archaeological techniques and interpretation.Description
Nineteenth to twentieth century records of Taplow Station gravel pit
AXES PROVENANCED TO 'BURNHAM-HITCHAM GWR CUTTING' & 'HITCHAM' PROB REFER TO EXTENSIONS TO TAPLOW STATION PIT, SINCE RAILWAY AT HITCHAM IS ON AN EMBANKMENT, NOT IN A CUTTING (B1).
TAPLOW STATION PIT, GIBBON'S & OTHER ADJOINING PITS DIFFICULT TO SEPARATE. WYMER'S NGR'S CONFUSING. SEE CASS 01910 FOR EARLY REFS (B2).
Station Pit (GWR Pit) was a large pit originally occupied by a temporary terminus of the Great Western mainline to Bristol in the 1850s. Deposits were Taplow Gravel. In 1995-6 the site was recorded as an open, levelled pit used as a rugby field. Assessed as a Lower Palaeolithic find spot of particular importance (B7-8).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
Nineteenth to twentieth century records of Taplow Station gravel pit
Date Listed
n/a