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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 SE 87 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | South Ash: Palaeolithic handaxe from tree-planting pit, and surface-finds of debitage |
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Summary
South Ash: Palaeolithic handaxe from tree-planting pit, and surface-finds of debitage
| Grid Reference: | TQ 59510 63130 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56SE |
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| Parish: | STANSTED, 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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South Ash: Palaeolithic handaxe from tree-planting pit, and surface-finds of debitage. handaxe discovery reported in late 19th century (1), and collection of flakes (presumed surface-finds) in British Museum and Maidstone 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. , p133 (Article in serial). ske55094.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p137 (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. p133. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p137. |
