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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 700 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Seal, hill to the northwest of: Palaeolithic handaxes from ground-surface, late 19th C records |
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Summary
Seal, hill to the northwest of: late 19th C records of Palaeolithic handaxes from ground-surface
| Grid Reference: | TQ 54170 57090 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, 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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Late 19th C records of Palaeolithic handaxes from ground-surface of the hill to the northwest of Seal: "implements of high-level valley gravel type" from small gravel patch at c. 300flint OD (1), 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. , p143 (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. p143. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p173. |
