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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 66 SW 150
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Stansted, general area: several Palaeolithic handaxes and one flake

Summary

Stansted, general area: several Palaeolithic handaxes and one flake in various museum collections


Grid Reference:TQ 60950 62010
Map Sheet:TQ66SW
Parish:STANSTED, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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, general area: seven Palaeolithic handaxes and one flake recorded by Roe in the 1960s in various museum collections, mostly British Museum (1); circumstances of recovery unknown, almost certainly surface-finds in late 19th century and early 20th century


<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p176 (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. p176.