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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NW 22 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Farningham, slope below Farningham Fort: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Farningham, slope below Farningham Fort: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes
| Grid Reference: | TQ 53770 66680 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NW |
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| Parish: | EYNSFORD, 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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[TQ 5166, sited to place name only]. Bluish-white hand axe, 4.8 incheslong, without its point, both faces rather flat but of pear-shaped outline, the side-edges rather zigzag and uncurved; fair amount of iron staining. Late Chelles. Surface at Wested. (1) Paleolithic implements found at Wested and near Farningham Fort on thewest side of the Darent Valley. (2)
<1> PPSEA 2 1914-18 108 fig 6 (H Dewey) (OS Card Reference). SKE48618.
<2> PPSEA 3 1918-22 268 (H Dewey) (OS Card Reference). SKE48625.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text] (Monograph). SWX6569.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p152 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: PPSEA 2 1914-18 108 fig 6 (H Dewey). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: PPSEA 3 1918-22 268 (H Dewey). |
| <3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p152. |
