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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 SW 254
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Neolithic Sickle

Summary

Neolithic flint sickle found during fieldwalking in 1974/5.


Grid Reference:TR 327 440
Map Sheet:TR34SW
Parish:GUSTON, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Associated Finds

  • SICKLE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Full description

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TR 327440. A Neolithic sickle of dark blue flint, finely worked on one side found on brickearth soil at Guston during fieldwalking by the Dover Archaeological Group in the winter of 1974/75 north of the Duke of York's Royal Military School. The find is in the possession of the Dover Archaeological Group. (1,1a)

Additional information (3)


<1> KARU Record Card P (OS Card Reference). SKE45594.

<2> KAR 48 1977 200 (J Grant, K Parfitt & G Halliwell) (OS Card Reference). SKE45350.

<3> Cluttons, 2002, Desk-Based Assessment of Dover Eastern Docks Supply Main (Unpublished document). SKE8212.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: KARU Record Card P.
<2>XYOS Card Reference: KAR 48 1977 200 (J Grant, K Parfitt & G Halliwell). [Mapped feature: #56762 flint, ]
<3>Unpublished document: Cluttons. 2002. Desk-Based Assessment of Dover Eastern Docks Supply Main.