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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 65 NW 354 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Ightham, Newhouse Farm: one Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Ightham, Newhouse Farm: one Palaeolithic handaxe (circumstances of recovery unknown, presumed surface-find)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 60000 59300 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ65NW |
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| Parish: | WROTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, 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, Newhouse Farm: one Palaeolithic handaxe (circumstances of recovery unknown, presumed surface-find) held in Maidstone Museum and recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2). Finds may originate from collecting by Benjamin Harrison in late 19th century and early 20th century, since he regularly investigated around this location (1)
<1> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , pp 73 etc (see index) (Monograph). SKE55068.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p161 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . pp 73 etc (see index). |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p161. |
