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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NE 241 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Yaldham, general area: two Palaeolithic handaxes (presumed surface-finds) in Maidstone Museum |
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Summary
2 find spots near Yaldham Manor Farm. First discoveries made in 1890.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58840 58865 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NE |
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| Parish: | WROTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, 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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2 find spots near Yaldham Manor Farm. First discoveries made in 1890. Site may equate with recorded by Roe at Yaldham qith 2 handaxes. (1,2)
Record created during 2015 Volunteer Project. Corresponds to TQ 55 NE 241.
<1> Harrison, Benjamin, 1888, Harrison’s Map. 1888. Draft of map prepared for Professor Prestwich in connection with Prestwich’s paper published in 1889 (Map). SKE30968.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p189 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: Harrison, Benjamin. 1888. Harrison’s Map. 1888. Draft of map prepared for Professor Prestwich in connection with Prestwich’s paper published in 1889. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p189. |
