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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NE 1149 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Littlebourne, four Palaeolithic handaxes from pit in Trenley Park Wood |
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Summary
Littlebourne, four Palaeolithic handaxes from pit in Trenley Park Wood
| Grid Reference: | TR 195 595 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NE |
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| Parish: | LITTLEBOURNE, CANTERBURY, 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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Three handaxes from pit in Trenley Park Wood, Littlebourne, seen by Roe (1) in British Museum collection, then included in Southern Rivers Project (2, 3), this latter source mentioning an additional fourth handaxe in Canterbury Museum
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p185 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S6.8, p151 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S6 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p185. |
| <2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S6.8, p151. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps]. S6. |
