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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 66 SW 148 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Ash Church, field to north of [= "Ash plain"]: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Ash Church, field to north of [= "Ash plain"]: surface-finds in late 19th century of several Palaeolithic handaxes
| Grid Reference: | TQ 60200 64750 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ66SW |
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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 Church, field to north of [= "Ash plain"]: surface-finds in late 19th century of several Palaeolithic handaxes (1, 2), recorded by Roe in the 1960s (3) in collections of National Museum and Gallery of Wales 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. , p263 (Article in serial). ske55095.
<2> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p201 (Monograph). SKE55068.
<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p136 (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. p263. |
| <2> | Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p201. |
| <3> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p136. |
