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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 65 NW 58
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Plaxtol, between Crouch and Claygate Cross: one Palaeolithic handaxe in Maidstone Museum, circumstances of recovery unknown

Summary

Plaxtol, between Crouch and Claygate Cross: one Palaeolithic handaxe in Maidstone Museum, circumstances of recovery unknown

Grid Reference:TQ 6140 5540
Map Sheet:TQ65NW
Parish:PLAXTOL, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, 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)

Full description

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(TQ 61455538) Site of paleolithic finds. (1) The Harrison collection of flints has been largely dispersed, only a few selected examples being held by the Maidstone Museum. A MS catalogue of the collection, in the museum, lists the finds by period and place name, with no indication of type of implement or exact provenance. The siting given by authority 1 should be considered as only approximate. (2) TQ 614554 Findspots of Palaeolithic implements in Hythe Beds geology. (5)


<1> Rec 6" (E R Harrison 1928) (OS Card Reference). SKE49030.

<2> Oral: LRA Grove Curator Maidstone Museum (OS Card Reference). SKE48039.

<3> F1 ASP 25-JUN-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42284.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 65 NW 58 - June, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3390.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK6.77 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: Rec 6" (E R Harrison 1928).
<2>OS Card Reference: Oral: LRA Grove Curator Maidstone Museum.
<3>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 25-JUN-59.
<4>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 65 NW 58 - June, 1959.
<5>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK6.77.