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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 703 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Sevenoaks, Greatness: Palaeolithic finds including at least one handaxe |
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Summary
Sevenoaks, Greatness: Palaeolithic handaxe and possible flake-tool held in British Museum.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 54150 56920 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, 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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Sevenoaks, Greatness: Palaeolithic handaxe and possible flake-tool recorded by Roe in the 1960s in collection of British Museum (2), circumstances of recovery unknown (presumed surface-finds). handaxe surface-find reported just north of Greatness Farm in late 19th century (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, p174 (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. p174. |
