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Monument details
HER Number: | TR 14 SW 32 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Stowting Rough, Stowting: surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Lower Palaeolithic flint handaxe described as a large Acheulean twisted ovate was found at Stowting in 1969 by Sir John Crofts.
Grid Reference: | TR 133 432 |
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Map Sheet: | TR14SW |
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Parish: | STOWTING, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Full description
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TR 133432. A large Acheulean twisted ovate axe of white patinated flint was found at Stowting in 1969 by Sir John Crofts who retains thefind. (1)
<1> Arch Cant 87 1972 232 (J Bradshaw) (OS Card Reference). SKE35902.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], p143, S3.2 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 87 1972 232 (J Bradshaw). [Mapped feature: #43346 Find, ] |
<2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. p143, S3.2. |