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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 85 SW 34
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Broomfield, Park Barn Farm: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary

Broomfield, Park Barn Farm: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe, found in 1973

Grid Reference:	TQ 83200 52300
Map Sheet:	TQ85SW
Parish:	BROOMFIELD AND KINGSWOOD, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

AXEHEAD (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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TQ 832523. Middle Acheulian small flint hand-axe . (1) Broomfield, Park Barn Farm: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe, found in 1973, white-patinated and with broken tip (1), listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (2).

<1> Arch Cant 91 1975 193 (C L S Williams) (OS Card Reference). SKE36039.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S1.3 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 91 1975 193 (C L S Williams).
<2>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S1.3.