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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SW 121 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Two palaeolithic handaxes findspots |
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Summary
Two palaeolithic handaxes from West Hill Road Schools, in Dartford Museum.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 533 744 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SW |
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| Parish: | DARTFORD, DARTFORD, 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)
Full description
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Two palaeolithic handaxes from West Hill Road Schools, in Dartford Museum, one seen by Roe (1) and both described by Wymer (2); one of them as a sharp, slightly-stained cleaver and the other as the broken tip of a finely-made, pointed, plano-convex form. Site then included in SRPP. (3)
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 150 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<2> Wymer, JJ, 1968, Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain as represented by the Thames Valley., p 328 (Monograph). SKE29697.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 3.20 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 150. |
| <2>XY | Monograph: Wymer, JJ. 1968. Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain as represented by the Thames Valley.. p 328. [Mapped feature: #10174 find, ] |
| <3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 3.20. |
