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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1429 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic handaxe finds from Manor Farm, Swanscombe |
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Summary
Two Palaeolithic handaxe finds from Manor Farm, Swanscombe. The farm has since been demolished and the area ocuupied by modern development. No info on circumstances of discovery.(location accurate to the nearest 50m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 604 739 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, 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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Two handaxes seen by Roe from "Manor Farm, Swanscombe" (1), one in Plymouth Museum and the other in Herne Bay Museum. Site is taken as 'Manor House Farm' rather than the nearby 'Alkerden Manor Farm' which is a bit further out of Swanscombe to the west. No info on circumstances of discovery. (1)
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p182 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p182. [Mapped feature: #84614 findspot, ] |
