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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 87 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Handaxe from Langdon Battery |
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Summary
Handaxe from Langdon Battery
| Grid Reference: | TR 345 435 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Prehistoric or Roman - 500000 BC? to 409 AD?)
Full description
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TR 345435. A flint handaxe was found at Langdon Battery, nr. Dover byMr Jones, proprietor of the Star Newsagent, Ladywell, Dover, at the edge of a ploughed field. The axe was initially depositied with DoverMuseum but was subsequently sent to the British Museum where it awaitsspecialist study. (1)
Additional Info(2,3)
<1> KAR 44 1976 85 (A Mcleod) (OS Card Reference). SKE45341.
<2> RPS Coulston, 1993, Proposed pipeline route A1 preliminary archaeological and ecological review of the proposed aligm't (Unpublished document). SKE6817.
<3> RPS, 1995, St Margarets, Cliffe, to Brickfield Cottages, Water Pipeline: Archaeological Monitoring Report (Unpublished document). SKE7105.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: KAR 44 1976 85 (A Mcleod). [Mapped feature: #55342 ] |
| <2> | Unpublished document: RPS Coulston. 1993. Proposed pipeline route A1 preliminary archaeological and ecological review of the proposed aligm't. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: RPS. 1995. St Margarets, Cliffe, to Brickfield Cottages, Water Pipeline: Archaeological Monitoring Report. |
