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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SW 434 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Wilmington, general area: very numerous finds of Palaeolithic handaxes and other flint artefacts |
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Summary
Wilmington, general area: very numerous finds of Palaeolithic handaxes (>40) and other material (several flakes, one possible flake tool, and one possible Levallois flake)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 53450 72080 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SW |
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| Parish: | WILMINGTON, DARTFORD, 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)
- LEVALLOIS FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Wilmington, general area: very numerous finds of Palaeolithic handaxes (>40) and other material (several flakes, one possible flake tool, and one possible Levallois flake) - circumstances of recovery unknown but presumed surface-finds. Mostly held in collections of Maidstone Museum and Museum of London, where recorded by Roe in the 1960s (1). This is an area of high Palaeolithic potential, where riverside deposits (especially the Dartford Silt) survive from the broad period 500,000-350,000 BP.
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p188 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p188. |
