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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 NE 1185 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Newington, near station: handaxe surface find |
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Summary
Newington, near station: handaxe (bout coupe) found on a road nearby
| Grid Reference: | TQ 85 65 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ86NE |
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| Parish: | NEWINGTON, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Roe recorded this handaxe in 1968 Gazetteer in the Geology Museum at South Kensington (1), then described it (2) as a small narrow bout coupe, damaged and white-patinated (2). Was not seen by Tyldesley (3) in her later review
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 167 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1981, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain., p. 261 (Monograph). SKE29687.
<3> Tyldesley JA, 1987, The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford. (Bibliographic reference). SKE29688.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 167. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1981. The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain.. p. 261. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Tyldesley JA. 1987. The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford.. |
