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Monument details

HER Number:TR 23 NW 38
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Folkestone, 3 miles north of (near Densole-Hawkinge?): findspot of one Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary

Folkestone, 3 miles north of (near Densole-Hawkinge?): one ovate Palaeolithic handaxe found on a heap of stones

Grid Reference:TR 21 40
Map Sheet:TR24SW
Parish:FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150000 BC)

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Stone heaps such as this usually result from the manual collection of larger flints from the surface of nearby fields


<1> Anc Stone Implements 1897 621 (J Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE33056.

<2> Evans, J., 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, p621; p622, Fig.464B (Monograph). SWX6573.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p153 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1994, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No. 3 — The Sussex Raised Beaches and the Bristol Avon. Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury. [Vol. I - text], p44, SXR1.1 (Unpublished document). SKE55104.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 3, Regions 2 & 6, The Sussex Raised Beaches and the Bristol Avon [Vol II - maps], SXR1.1 (Unpublished document). SKE29917.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: Anc Stone Implements 1897 621 (J Evans).
<2>Monograph: Evans, J.. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. p621; p622, Fig.464B.
<3>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p153.
<4>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1994. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No. 3 — The Sussex Raised Beaches and the Bristol Avon. Wessex Archaeology, Salisbury. [Vol. I - text]. p44, SXR1.1.
<5>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 3, Regions 2 & 6, The Sussex Raised Beaches and the Bristol Avon [Vol II - maps]. SXR1.1.