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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 56 NW 128 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Swanley, Wood Street: finds of 8 Palaeolithic handaxes, three possible flake-tools, and 15 flakes |
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Summary
Swanley, Wood Street: finds of 8 Palaeolithic handaxes, three possible flake-tools, and 15 flakes - circumstances of recovery unknown.
Grid Reference: | TQ 53640 69560 |
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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
- FLAKE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
Full description
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8 Paleolithic Handaxes and 20 pieces of debitage. [1] Held in British Museum, recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2) then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (1).
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 2.38 (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 2.38. |
<2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p179. |