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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 57 SW 86
Type of record:Monument
Name:Bexley, Tile Kiln Lane: four Acheulian handaxes from house footings on new development behind Bexley Hospital

Summary

Bexley, Tile Kiln Lane: four Acheulian handaxes from house footings on new development behind Bexley Hospital, from possible palaeo-landsurface towards southern side of wide spread of Boyn Hill terrace gravel.

Grid Reference:TQ 5148 7207
Map Sheet:TQ57SW
Parish:DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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Four Acheulian handaxes were found while digging footings for a new house just off Tile Kiln Lane, Bexley, behind Bexley Hospital. They were presented to Dartford museum by Mr. R. Wakeman, 70, Iron Mill Lane, Crayford, on 6.3.1962. (1) Mr. Wakeman could not be contacted. The implements were probably found within the new housing estate cnetred at TQ 51487207 (2)

Additional Reference [4]

The handaxes were recorded by Roe in the 1960s (5), and then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (6).


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

<1> Dartford Museum Donations File (OS Card Reference). SKE39669.

<2> F1 ASP 02-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41899.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 57 SW 86 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3191.

<5> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p139 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK3.23 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text].
<1>OS Card Reference: Dartford Museum Donations File.
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 02-OCT-64.
<4>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 57 SW 86 - October, 1964.
<5>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p139.
<6>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK3.23.