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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NW 55
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Palaeolithic flint implement, surface find from Telegraph Hill, Minster, Thanet

Summary

A small pointed Palaeolithic implement was found near Minster in 1899, on Telegraph Hill, considered to be the highest ground on Isle of Thanet.

Grid Reference:TR 315 658
Map Sheet:TR36NW
Parish:MINSTER, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC (at some time) to 40001 BC (at some time))

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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A small pointed Palaeolithic "implement" (presumably a handaxe) was found at Minster, Thanet, in 1899 by J Romilly Allen (1, 2, 3), on Telegraph Hill, about one mile north of Minster Church, on the road that leads from Ramsgate to Sarre. Additional sources (4, 5).


<1> Clinch, G., 1908, Early Man, p. 311 (Article in monograph). SKE29686.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p. 167 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> 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. 11, p 153 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<4> Osborne-White, HJ., 1928, Memoir of the Geological Survey: Explanation of Sheets 274 and 290. HMSO, London., p. 66 (Monograph). SKE29908.

<5> British Geological Survey, 1980, Ramsgate: England and Wales Sheet 274, Solid and Drift Geology, 1:50,000 (Cartographic materials). SKE29909.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYArticle in monograph: Clinch, G.. 1908. Early Man. p. 311. [Mapped feature: #63554 find, ]
<2>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p. 167.
<3>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. 11, p 153.
<4>Monograph: Osborne-White, HJ.. 1928. Memoir of the Geological Survey: Explanation of Sheets 274 and 290. HMSO, London.. p. 66.
<5>Cartographic materials: British Geological Survey. 1980. Ramsgate: England and Wales Sheet 274, Solid and Drift Geology, 1:50,000.