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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 57 SE 46
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Sutton-at-Hone, Hawley: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary

Sutton-at-Hone, Hawley: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe

Grid Reference:	TQ 543 713
Map Sheet:	TQ57SW
Parish:	SUTTON-AT-HONE AND HAWLEY, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Associated Finds

HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Full description

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An Acheulian hand-axe of unusual form, elongated in shape, was found in a field at Hawley, Sutton-at-Hone. Now in Dartford Museum. (1) Probably in store among implements of unknown provenance. No further information. (2) Additional reference [4]

<1> Arch. Cant. 72, 1958, lxii (Note) (OS Card Reference). SKE37039.

<2> Inf. Mr Ritson, Asst. Librarian & Curator, Dartford. (OS Card Reference). SKE44389.

<3> F1 ASP 02-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41899.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 57 SE 46 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3085.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 4.21 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	OS Card Reference: Arch. Cant. 72, 1958, lxii (Note).
<2>	OS Card Reference: Inf. Mr Ritson, Asst. Librarian & Curator, Dartford..
<3>	OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 02-OCT-64.
<4>	Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 57 SE 46 - October, 1964.
<4>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 4.21.