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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 SE 16 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Plaxdale Green: surface-find of Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Palaeolithic implements of uncertain type, as well as items described as eoliths, found by Benjamin Harrison at Plaxdale Green. The eoliths almost certainly represent naturally-flaked or worn flints rather than genuine artefacts.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5975 6135 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56SE |
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| Parish: | STANSTED, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, 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 59756153] Area of eolithic finds. (1) Notes by Benjamin Harrison on the finding of eoliths and Paleoliths atPlaxdale Green. (2) No field action. (3) One Palaeolithic handaxe recorded by Roe in the 1960s (5) in collection of London Institute of Archaeology.
<1> Rec 6" (E R Harrison, 1928) (OS Card Reference). SKE49033.
<2> Harrison of Ightam 1928 146 219 250 281 381 (E R Harrison) (OS Card Reference). SKE43696.
<3> F1 AC 01.08.60 (OS Card Reference). SKE41739.
<4> Field report for monument TQ 56 SE 16 - August, 1960 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2956.
<5> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p137 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Rec 6" (E R Harrison, 1928). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Harrison of Ightam 1928 146 219 250 281 381 (E R Harrison). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 AC 01.08.60. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 SE 16 - August, 1960. |
| <5> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p137. |
