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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 66 SW 3
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Wrotham, Plot Farm (renamed "Platt House Farm" c. 1890): surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary

Wrotham, Plot Farm (renamed "Platt House Farm" c. 1890): surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe

Grid Reference:	TQ 62225 60540
Map Sheet:	TQ66SW
Parish:	WROTHAM, 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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[Area Centred TQ 62286066] Sites of Eolithic finds. [TQ 62266066] Site of Palaeolithic find. (1) Notes by Benjamin Harrison referring to a spread of ochreous gravel in the "top corner of the field due east of Plat (Platt) House" and to the finding of Eoliths and Palaeoliths near Platthouse. (2) Harrison collection, further information - see TQ 65 SW 2. (3) One Palaeolithic handaxe in Herne Bay Museum from "Plot" [=Plat/Platt] Farm, recorded by Roe in the 1960s (5).

<1> Rec 6" (ER Harrison1928) (OS Card Reference). SKE49039.

<2> Harrison of Ightham 1928 155 161 187 292 (ER Harrison) (OS Card Reference). SKE43707.

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

<4> Field report for monument TQ 66 SW 3 - June, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3574.

<5> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p189 (Monograph). SWX6570.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	OS Card Reference: Rec 6" (ER Harrison1928).
<2>	OS Card Reference: Harrison of Ightham 1928 155 161 187 292 (ER Harrison).
<3>	OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 25-JUN-59.
<4>	Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 66 SW 3 - June, 1959.
<5>	Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p189.