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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 SE 84 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Wrotham, Birches Wood [aka "Birches"]: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Wrotham, Birches Wood [aka "Birches"]: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes, held in collections of British Museum and London Institute of Archaeology
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58130 60400 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56SE |
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| Parish: | WEST KINGSDOWN, 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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Wrotham, Birches Wood [aka "Birches"]: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes, held in collections of British Museum and London Institute of Archaeology. Finds in 1902 from "ochreous patch" reported by Harrison (1), then finds in museum collections recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2).
<1> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p247 etc, see index (Monograph). SKE55068.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p152 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p247 etc, see index. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p152. |
