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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 SW 5 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Maidstone, general Coxheath area: one Palaeolithic handaxe, circumstances of recovery unknown |
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Summary
Lower Palaeolithic handaxe, probably Acheulian, found on Coxheath in 1926. A handaxe, may be the same one as found in 1926, was found at Springett Way, Coxheath, in an area of Hythe Beds geology.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 73800 51430 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75SW |
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| Parish: | EAST FARLEIGH, MAIDSTONE, 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)
Full description
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A handaxe of St. Acheul type, from Cox Heath, on the surface. In Maidstone Mus. (1) An Acheulian handaxe in Maidstone Museum store was found in 1926 at Cox Heath but no details of its discovery or of its finder are known. (2) Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4).
<1> Rochester Naturalist 6 1928 104 (N C Cook) (OS Card Reference). SKE49300.
<2> F1 CFW 11.02.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42523.
<3> Field report for monument TQ 75 SW 5 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3985.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 166 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Rochester Naturalist 6 1928 104 (N C Cook). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 11.02.64. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 75 SW 5 - February, 1964. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 166. |
