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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 55 SE 179 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Ightham, field on western part of the summit of Raspit Hill: surface find of broken Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Ightham, field on western part of the summit of Raspit Hill: surface find by Benjamin Harrison in 1880 of broken Palaeolithic handaxe
Grid Reference: | TQ 57685 54940 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ55SE |
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Parish: | SEAL, 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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Ightham, field on western part of the summit of Raspit Hill: surface find by Benjamin Harrison in 1880 of broken Palaeolithic handaxe (1), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (2)
<1> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p88 (Monograph). SKE55068.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK6.8 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p88. |
<2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK6.8. |