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Monument details

HER Number:TR 26 NW 19
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Reculver beach, 2 x handaxe surface finds

Summary

Reculver beach, 2 x handaxe surface finds, discovered in 1868 in collection of Canterbury Museum

Grid Reference:TR 21 69
Map Sheet:TR26NW
Parish:HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY, KENT

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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On exhibition at the Royal Museum, Canterbury, Acc. No. RM 202, is an ovate handaxe, 6 inches in length, 4 inches greatest width, found at Reculver. It was donated by Lt. Col. Copeland in 1897 but no other details of the find are known (1). Another sub-ovate handaxe found at Reculver in 1868 is also in the museum collection, acc. no. 9193 (2). Additional references (3-6, 9) and site photographs (7, 8).


<1> Inventory Book Royal Mus Canterbury (OS Card Reference). SKE44499.

<2> F1 CFW 23.09.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42716.

<3> F2 CFW 06.11.69 (OS Card Reference). SKE43209.

<4> Field report for monument TR 26 NW 19 - September, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5854.

<5> Field report for monument TR 26 NW 19 - November, 1969 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5855.

<6> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record, 19 (Index). SWX11836.

<7> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11653.

<8> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11639.

<9> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-7, No's 3 and 4, p 152 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: Inventory Book Royal Mus Canterbury.
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 23.09.63.
<3>OS Card Reference: F2 CFW 06.11.69.
<4>XYBibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 26 NW 19 - September, 1963. [Mapped feature: #50503 find, ]
<5>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 26 NW 19 - November, 1969.
<6>Index: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record. 19.
<7>Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2268/6. print.
<8>Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2168/1. print.
<9>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-7, No's 3 and 4, p 152.