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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NE 221 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Ash, West Yoke and "Westyoke Farm": surface finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Ash, West Yoke and "Westyoke Farm": surface finds in late 19th century of several Palaeolithic handaxes
| Grid Reference: | TQ 59335 65425 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NE |
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| Parish: | ASH-CUM-RIDLEY, 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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Ash, West Yoke and "Westyoke Farm": surface finds in late 19th century of several Palaeolithic handaxes reported by Prestwich (1), and substantial collections in several museums recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2), espcially in British Museum and London Institute of Archaeology.
<1> Prestwich J, , 1892, On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. , p248 (Article in serial). ske55095.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p188 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1892. On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. . Journal of the Anthropological Institute 21: 246-262. p248. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p188. |
