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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NW 126 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Swanley, general area: surface-finds of >10 handaxes and one possible flake-tool |
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Summary
Swanley, general area: surface-finds of >10 handaxes and one possible flake-tool, held in Maidstone Museum and Museum of London
| Grid Reference: | TQ 527 696 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NW |
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| Parish: | SWANLEY, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
Full description
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11 Palaeo. Handaxes and 1 piece of debitage [1] Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2).
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 2.36 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p179 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 2.36. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p179. |
