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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NE 265 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Oldbury Hill, dip-slope to the north (c. 500flint OD): surface-find of a Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Oldbury Hill, dip-slope to the north (c. 500flint OD): surface-find in 1901 of a "fine ochreous pointed" Palaeolithic handaxe
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58010 56475 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NE |
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| Parish: | IGHTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, 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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Oldbury Hill, dip-slope to the north (c. 500flint OD): surface-find in 1901 of a "fine ochreous pointed" Palaeolithic handaxe (1), possibly extant amongst the material from the site recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2).
<1> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p245 (Monograph). SKE55068.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p170 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p245. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p170. |
