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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 57 SE 71
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Beaker pottery and flint implements findspot

Summary

Beaker pottery and flint implements North of Beechin Wood Cottages

Grid Reference:TQ 580 741
Map Sheet:TQ57SE
Parish:STONE, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • BEAKER (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 1700 BC)

Full description

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Beaker sherds and some flint artefacts/ implements were reportedly found by JPT Burchell north of Beechin Wood Cottages (1), about 1931, in an area centred at TQ 58057338. The find-spot is now quarried away (within 'Eastern Quarry') and the finds are held at the British Museum (2,3). The find-spot is included in the SRPP (4), but there is no reason to be confident that the flint finds are Palaeolithic rather than later prehistoric.


<1> Oral: Major J.P.T. Burchell Fawke Common, Sevenoaks. (OS Card Reference). SKE48050.

<2> F1 ASP 08-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42005.

<3> Field report for monument TQ 57 SE 71 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3108.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 4.13 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: Oral: Major J.P.T. Burchell Fawke Common, Sevenoaks..
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 08-OCT-64.
<3>XYBibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 57 SE 71 - October, 1964. [Mapped feature: #70326 find, ]
<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 4.13.