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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SE 182 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Ivy Hatch, Fielder's Pit: large collection of Palaeolithic material, including 10 handaxes |
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Summary
Ivy Hatch, Fielder's Pit: large collection of Palaeolithic material in Maidstone Museum (10 handaxes, 23 flakes and 5 other miscellaneous worked pieces)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58700 54535 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SE |
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| Parish: | IGHTHAM, 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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Ivy Hatch, Fielder's Pit: large collection of Palaeolithic material recorded by Roe in the 1960s in Maidstone Museum, comprising 10 handaxes, 23 flakes and 5 other miscellaneous worked pieces (4), circumstances of recovery unknown. Report of early in situ recovery of worked flints in 1870 (2). Site is shown on OS mapping as tiny pit in 1896 (1), and then substantially larger sand pit in 1938, showing it as a findspot for Palaeolithic artefacts (3).
<1> Ordnance Survey, 1896, OS County Series, 1:2500 (Map). ske55102.
<2> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p66 (Monograph). SKE55068.
<3> Ordnance Survey, 1938, OS County Series, 1:2500 (Map). ske55103.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p164 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1896. OS County Series, 1:2500. |
| <2> | Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p66. |
| <3> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1938. OS County Series, 1:2500. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p164. |
