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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NW 43 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Farningham, slope to south of The Folly: surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe (S-twisted ovate) |
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Summary
Farningham, slope to south of The Folly: surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe (S-twisted ovate), found in the early 20th century
| Grid Reference: | TQ 54635 67500 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NW |
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| Parish: | FARNINGHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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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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[Area TQ 548676] A Paleolithic handaxe ovate with dises twisted in S curve, exceptional, has been found at the Folly, Farningham. (1) No further information. (2) Findspot recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4), based on Dewey's report (1), present whereabouts of material unkown.
<1> PPSEA 2 1915-18 109 illus (H Dewey) (OS Card Reference). SKE48622.
<2> F1 CFW 25.09.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42754.
<3> Field report for monument TQ 56 NW 43 - September, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2933.
<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 1915-18 109 illus (H Dewey). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 25.09.64. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 NW 43 - September, 1964. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p152. |
