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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 66 SW 149 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Stansted, Sparksfield: surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Stansted, Sparksfield: surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe held in British Museum
| Grid Reference: | TQ 61830 61865 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ66SW |
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| Parish: | STANSTED, 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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Stansted, Sparksfield: surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe held in British Museum, recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2). Location shown on Prestwich's map (1).
<1> Prestwich J, , 1892, On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. , Pl. 18 (Article in serial). ske55095.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p137 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1892. On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. . Journal of the Anthropological Institute 21: 246-262. Pl. 18. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p137. |
