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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 699 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Seal and Seal Chart, general area: surface finds of numerous Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Seal and Seal Chart, general area: surface finds of numerous Palaeolithic handaxes in late 19th century
| Grid Reference: | TQ 54975 56920 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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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 and Seal Chart, general area: surface finds of numerous Palaeolithic handaxes in late 19th century, mostly moderately large pointed forms (1, 2). Fourteen handaxes recorded by Roe in the 1960s (3), moslty in collections of British Museum and Maidstone Museum.
<1> Spurrell FCJ, , 1883, Palaeolithic implements found in West Kent. , p96 (Article in serial). ske32204.
<2> Prestwich, J., 1889, On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age, p285 (Article in serial). SKE31330.
<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p173 (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. p96. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Prestwich, J.. 1889. On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age. Vol 45, 270 - 297. p285. |
| <3> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p173. |
