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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 65 NW 355 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Offham, Comp Rise: one Palaeolithic handaxe, circumstances of recovery unknown |
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Summary
Offham, Comp Rise: one Palaeolithic handaxe in the British Museum, circumstances of recovery unknown.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 62970 57000 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ65NW |
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| Parish: | PLATT, 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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Offham, Comp Rise: one Palaeolithic handaxe held in British Museum and recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2). Circumstances of recovery and exact findspot location unknown, but locality corresponds well with Benjamin Harrison's report of Palaeolithic artefacts having been found "on the divide at 400flint in the Comp area" (1).
<1> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p306 (Monograph). SKE55068.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p169 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p306. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p169. |
