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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 SE 90 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Kingsdown: two Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Kingsdown: two Palaeolithic handaxes held in British Museum
| Grid Reference: | TQ 57900 62530 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56SE |
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| Parish: | WEST KINGSDOWN, SEVENOAKS, 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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Kingsdown: two Palaeolithic handaxes held in British Museum, recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2), circumstances of recovery unknown (presumed surface-finds). One white-patinated sharp-pointed handaxe recovered as a surface-find in late 19th century (1), although uncertain whether this record relates to either of the handaxes seen by Roe (2).
<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. , pp 248, 256 (Article in serial). ske55095.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p164 (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. pp 248, 256. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p164. |
