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Monument details
HER Number: | TR 34 SW 92 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Damaged Palaeolithic handaxe. |
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Summary
Lower Palaeolithic handaxe and a handaxe fragment of acheulian type were found on the surface of a ploughed field on the route of the Lydden - Dover by-pass. Objects found in an area of Clay-with-flints geology
Grid Reference: | TR 325 442 |
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Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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Parish: | GUSTON, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Full description
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TR 325442. A damaged Acheulian-type handaxe found on the surface of aploughed field on the route of the Lydden - Dover by-pass (1, 2)
. Assumed to be a different find from those reported by Gaunt at other locations along the by-pass (3)
<1> RPS, 2011, Historical Environmental Desk Based Assessment: Sheerness WTM, p. 208 (Unpublished document). SKE29681.
<2> Cluttons, 2002, Desk-Based Assessment of Dover Eastern Docks Supply Main (Unpublished document). SKE8212.
<3> Bradshaw J, 1976, Reports from local Secretaries and Groups, Ashford Archaeological society: Ashford (Article in serial). SKE29689.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Unpublished document: RPS. 2011. Historical Environmental Desk Based Assessment: Sheerness WTM. p. 208. |
<2> | Unpublished document: Cluttons. 2002. Desk-Based Assessment of Dover Eastern Docks Supply Main. |
<3> | Article in serial: Bradshaw J. 1976. Reports from local Secretaries and Groups, Ashford Archaeological society: Ashford. |