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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NW 820 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Downs behind Folkestone, surface-finds of Palaeolithic handaxes and other flint implements (Vachell collection) |
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Summary
Downs behind Folkestone, surface-finds of Palaeolithic handaxes and other flint implements (Vachell collection)
| Grid Reference: | TR 2300 3900 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | HAWKINGE, SHEPWAY, 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?)
- WORKED FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
Full description
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A collection of 7 flint implements found by Mr Vacchel on the Downs behind Folkestone was exhibited in London, 17th Feb 1914 (1). Four of them are clearly Palaeolithic handaxes, of pointed ovate and sub-cordate form; 3 of them are small bifacial implements of ovate/sub-ovate shape of less-certain date, although attributed as Palaeolithic by RA Smith (1). Subsequently Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2).
<1> Smith RA, 1914, Surface implements of Palaeolithic type., pp468-469 (Article in serial). SKE29888.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p153 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Smith RA. 1914. Surface implements of Palaeolithic type.. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia 1 (4): 468-472.. pp468-469. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p153. |
