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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 65 NW 358 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Basted valley, Kingsfield: surface-finds of three Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Basted valley, Kingsfield: surface-finds of three Palaeolithic handaxes in Maidstone Museum
| Grid Reference: | TQ 60550 55765 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ65NW |
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| Parish: | PLAXTOL, 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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Basted valley, Kingsfield: surface-finds of three Palaeolithic handaxes recorded by Roe in the 1960s in Maidstone Museum (2), precise circumstances of recovery unknown. Site location is shown on Prestwich's geological cross-section diagram (1).
<1> Prestwich, J., 1889, On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age, p272 (Fig. 3) (Article in serial). SKE31330.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p223 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Prestwich, J.. 1889. On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age. Vol 45, 270 - 297. p272 (Fig. 3). |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p223. |
