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Monument details

Summary

An Acheulian ovate flint hand axe found at Dreal's Farm, after ploughing Cross Roads Field, together with two fragments of Neolithic polished axes (see TR 14 SE 81) found in the near vicinity. These have been presented to the Royal Museum, Canterbury.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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[TR 19384429]. An Acheulian ovate flint hand axe found Dreal's Farm, after ploughing Cross Roads Field, together with two fragments of Neolithic polished axes (TR 14 SE 81 photos in Mr Beeching's possession show two intact cutting edges) found in the near vicinity. These have been presented to the Royal Museum, Canterbury. Acheulian hand axe accession number is 8/1962 RM 8349. (1,2)

Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (3), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (4, 5).

<1> F1 ASP 09-MAY-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42019.

<2> Phillips, A., 1963, Field report for monument TR 14 SE 32 - May, 1963 (Unpublished document). SKE5433.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p151 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], p143, S3.5 (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Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S3.5 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

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