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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 NW 85 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic handaxe and flake dredged from Thames at Broadness. |
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Summary
Palaeolithic handaxe and flake dredged from Thames at Broadness.
Location accurate to 500m based on available information
| Grid Reference: | TQ 60 77 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67NW |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Handaxe and flake dredged from Thames at Broadness. Flake described by Wymer as 'possibly Levallois' (1). Roe (2) lists a handaxe roughout also dredged from the Thames at Broadness (TQ 605 768), and these finds then listed in SRPP (3).
Location accurate to 500m based on available information
<1> Wymer, JJ, 1968, Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain as represented by the Thames Valley., p 354 (Monograph). SKE29697.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 140 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 5.15 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Monograph: Wymer, JJ. 1968. Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain as represented by the Thames Valley.. p 354. [Mapped feature: #15758 find, ] |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 140. |
| <3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 5.15. |
