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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NW 426 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | One of two Palaeolithic handaxes from above Barming Asylum |
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Summary
Palaeolithic handaxe from above Barming Asylum, surface find by B Harrison in c. the 1880s
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7320 5600 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NW |
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| Parish: | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Palaeolithic handaxe from above Barming Asylum, surface find by B Harrison in c. the 1880s, precise find location shown on Harrison's map, held at Maidstone Museum (1), may be the same one as documented by Roe (2).
<1> Harrison B,, 1888, Map prepared for Professor Prestwich in connection with Prestwich’s paper published in 1889 (Map). SKE51559.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p139 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: Harrison B,. 1888. Map prepared for Professor Prestwich in connection with Prestwich’s paper published in 1889. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p139. |
