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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 55 NE 296
Type of record:Findspot
Name:West Yaldham, near East Lodge entrance to St Clere: broken Palaeolithic handaxe found on ground surface

Summary

West Yaldham, near East Lodge entrance to St Clere: broken Palaeolithic handaxe found on ground surface


Grid Reference:TQ 58285 58850
Map Sheet:TQ55NE
Parish:WROTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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West Yaldham, near East Lodge entrance to St Clere: broken Palaeolithic handaxe found on ground surface, reported by Prestwich in late 19th century (1), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (2)


<1> Prestwich J, , 1891, On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. , p143 (Article in serial). ske55094.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK6.53 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

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<1>Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1891. On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 47: 126-163. p143.
<2>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK6.53.