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Monument details
| HER Number: | MKE116314 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Seal, Bitchet: four Palaeolithic handaxes from unlocated site named as "East Bitchet" |
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Summary
Seal, Bitchet: four Palaeolithic handaxes from unlocated site named as "East Bitchet", first reported in the late 19th century by Spurrell
| Grid Reference: | TQ 57000 54200 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SE |
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| Parish: | SEAL, SEVENOAKS, 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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Seal, Bitchet: four Palaeolithic handaxes from unlocated site named as "East Bitchet", first reported in the late 19th century by Spurrell (1), then recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2) - held in British Museum. Finds from Seal, in the field to east of Lower Bitchet may equate with this locality - see KHCP3_M_28
<1> Spurrell FCJ, , 1883, Palaeolithic implements found in West Kent. , p95 (Article in serial). ske32204.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p140 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Spurrell FCJ, . 1883. Palaeolithic implements found in West Kent. . Archaeologia Cantiana 15: 89-103. p95. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p140. |
