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Monument details

HER Number:TR 14 SE 237
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Elham, fields in vicinity of Standardhill Farm and Dreal's Farm: surface-finds of two Palaeolithic handaxes

Summary

Elham, fields in vicinity of Standardhill Farm and Dreal's Farm: surface-finds of two Palaeolithic handaxes, one of them bout coupé

Grid Reference:TR 1910 4420
Map Sheet:TR14SE
Parish:ELHAM, SHEPWAY, 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?)
  • HANDAXE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Elham, fields in vicinity of Standardhill Farm and Dreal's Farm: surface-finds of two Palaeolithic handaxes, one of them bout coupé (Canterbury RM, Acc 8495). Recorded by Roe in the 1960s in Canterbury Museum (1), then more details in other publications by Roe (2) and Tyldesley (3). Listed in Canterbury Museum collections in 2012, RM Acc 8495 and 8550 (4).


<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 151 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<2> Roe DA, 1981, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain, p 259 (Monograph). SKE29687.

<3> Tyldesley JA, 1987, The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford., pp70-71 (no. 47) (Bibliographic reference). SKE29688.

<4> Canterbury City Council, 2012, Index of artefacts held in Canterbury City Council museums (Index). SKE29914.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 151.
<2>Monograph: Roe DA. 1981. The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain. p 259.
<3>Bibliographic reference: Tyldesley JA. 1987. The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford.. pp70-71 (no. 47).
<4>Index: Canterbury City Council. 2012. Index of artefacts held in Canterbury City Council museums.