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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 65 NW 347
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Borough Green, general area: at least two Palaeolithic handaxes in museum collections, circumstances of recovery unknown

Summary

Borough Green, general area: at least two Palaeolithic handaxes in museum collections, circumstances of recovery unknown


Grid Reference:TQ 6130 5720
Map Sheet:TQ65NW
Parish:BOROUGH GREEN, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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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Borough Green, general area: at least two Palaeolithic handaxes in museum collections, circumstances of recovery unknown, recorded by Roe in the 1960s (1) then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (2).


<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p140 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK6.81 (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. p140.
<2>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK6.81.