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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 55 NE 266
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Seal, Fuller Street: surface-finds of two Palaeolithic handaxes

Summary

Seal, Fuller Street: surface-finds of two Palaeolithic handaxes in late 19th century


Grid Reference:TQ 56160 56925
Map Sheet:TQ55NE
Parish:SEAL, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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, Fuller Street: surface-finds of two Palaeolithic handaxes in late 19th century (1), then material held in Maidstone Museum and Natural History Museum recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2).


<1> Prestwich J, , 1891, On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. , Plate VII (Article in serial). ske55094.

<2> 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: Prestwich J, . 1891. On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 47: 126-163. Plate VII.
<2>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p173.