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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 SE 88 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Brands Hatch [formerly known as Barnhatch, Barn Hatch, Barnshatch, and other similar variants]: surface-finds of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Brands Hatch [formerly known as Barnhatch, Barn Hatch, Barnshatch, and other similar variants]: surface-finds in late 19th century of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58010 64790 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56SE |
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| Parish: | WEST KINGSDOWN, 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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Brands Hatch [formerly known as Barnhatch, Barn Hatch, Barnshatch, and other similar variants]: surface-finds in late 19th century of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes (1), recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2).
<1> Prestwich J, , 1895, On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of age and make (revised with additions), from Journ. Anthropological Institute for 1892, p. 246., Plate XI, no. 38 (Article in serial). ske55097.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, pp 140, 174 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1895. On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of age and make (revised with additions), from Journ. Anthropological Institute for 1892, p. 246.. Plate XI, no. 38. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. pp 140, 174. |
