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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 SW 19 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Numerous palaeolithic handaxes from Lullingsstone Park |
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Summary
Lullingstone Park, c. 1 mile WNW from "Lullingstone Church" - presumably St Botolph's (vicinity of "The Roughet"): numerous Palaeolithic handaxes discovered when ground broken up in World War I - reported as "deep in the soil".
| Grid Reference: | TQ 51515 65045 |
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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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Acheulian type implements were found deep in the soil when some grassland about a mile west-north-west of Lullingstone Church (TQ 5299 6443) was broken up during the 1914-18 war. A local fruit grower took possession of all that were found. (1) No further information. (2)
The site was recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4) based on Dewey's report (1); present whereabouts of material unkown.
<1> Ant. J. 4, 1924, 148 (H. Dewey) (OS Card Reference). SKE33234.
<2> F1 ASP 07-Oct-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41989.
<3> Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 19 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2982.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p165 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Ant. J. 4, 1924, 148 (H. Dewey). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 07-Oct-64. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 19 - October, 1964. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p165. |
