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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NW 18
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Acheulian handaxe, Strood Hill, Strood

Summary

Acheulian handaxe was found on Strood Hill. It was discovered in a patch of gravelley hill wash banked up against the Thanet Sand ridge which crosses the Watling Street c.700 m from the Coach and Horses on Strood Hill. Now in Rochester Museum.

Grid Reference:TQ 721 694
Map Sheet:TQ76NW
Parish:ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Full description

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A handaxe now in Rochester Museum, was found by Master FGE Forsythe, some time before 1924. It was in a patch of gravelly hill wash banked up against the Thanet Sand ridge which crosses the Watling Street just above the 200 ft. contour, about 700 yds. from the Coach and Horses on Strood Hill (1). Additional information (2, 3). Listed in the Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project (4, 5)


<1> Evans JH,, 1924, Archaeological discoveries and researches in the Regional Survey area. (Article in serial). SKE51535.

<2> OS Card / NAR index, F1 AC 25-OCT-51 (Unpublished document). SKE6461.

<3> Field report for monument TQ 76 NW 18 - October, 1951 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4087.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M 5.6 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], M 5.6 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Evans JH,. 1924. Archaeological discoveries and researches in the Regional Survey area.. Rochester Naturalist 6: 49-54..
<2>Unpublished document: OS Card / NAR index. F1 AC 25-OCT-51.
<3>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 76 NW 18 - October, 1951.
<4>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M 5.6.
<5>XYUnpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps]. M 5.6. [Mapped feature: #22490 find, ]