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Monument details

Summary

Findspot of two Lower Palaeolithic handaxes in Clay-with-flints geology. The object was found on the surface on the border of Currie Wood, near Currie Farm between Knockholt and Shoreham.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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Palaeolithic ovate (closely resembling that from Swalecliffe (see TR 16 NW 4) found on the surface on the border of Currie Wood, near Currie Farm (3) between Knockholt and Shoreham, by Evans in 1869. (1) Curry Wood was a coppice cleared piecemeal about 100 years ago for small holdings. It was centred at TQ 488604 and the name still survives locally. (a) No further information on this or any subsequent finds was gained among the small holdings, or from past and present farmers of Curry Farm adjoining. (2) TQ 4960 Findspot of two Lower Palaeolithic handaxes in Clay-with-flints geology. (3-7)

<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p155 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<2> ASI 1897 605 (J Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE37408.

<3> H A Eder "Curry Wood Farm" (small holding) (OS Card Reference). SKE43651.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 46 SE 10 - April, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2699.

<5> F1 CFW 06-Apr-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42447.

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK2.17 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<7> Prestwich J, , 1891, On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. , p129-130 (Article in serial). SKE55094.

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