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Monument details

Summary

Palaeolithic handaxe, surface find on Deadman's Island

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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Handaxe found in alluvium on Deadman's Island. (1)

Palaeolithic handaxe, surface find on Deadman's Island; on display in Gillingham Museum (1)

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M-6.12, p 134 (Monograph). SWX6569.

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