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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 55 NW 35 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Otford, Otford Mount: Palaeolithic handaxe, surface-find near a rabbit-hole |
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Summary
Findspot of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe in Chalk geology.
Grid Reference: | TQ 5360 5961 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ55NW |
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Parish: | OTFORD, SEVENOAKS, 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 small Ach. flint ovate handaxe, 2 7/8" long, with a white patination, found near a rabbit hole on Otford Mount, and now in Maidstone Museum (Acc. No. 123/1965) was the gift of the finder Master Timothy Owen, of 58 Well Road, Otford, who came on it by chance in 1965 whilst walking up a footpath on the west side of the hill. Owen indicated the findspot at TQ 5360059614. (1) TQ 536596 Findspot of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe in Chalk geology. (2) Otford, Otford Mount: Palaeolithic handaxe, surface-find near a rabbit-hole, later listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (4).
<1> Inf: Mr. L.R.A. Grove, Curator, Maidstone Museum. (OS Card Reference). SKE44427.
<2> F1 ASP 01-SEP-66 (OS Card Reference). SKE41879.
<3> Field report for monument TQ 55 NW 35 - September, 1966 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2825.
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK2.10 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | OS Card Reference: Inf: Mr. L.R.A. Grove, Curator, Maidstone Museum.. |
<2> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 01-SEP-66. |
<3> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 55 NW 35 - September, 1966. |
<4> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK2.10. |