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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 74 NW 263 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Marden, general area: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Marden, general area: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes in Maidstone Museum
| Grid Reference: | TQ 72000 45000 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ74NW |
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| Parish: | COLLIER STREET, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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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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Marden, general area: surface-finds of several Palaeolithic handaxes from the Beult gravels in Maidstone Museum, presented by Mrs Kennard (perhaps after AS Kennard's death in 1948) (1-2). Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (3), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (4).
<1> F1 ASP 14-JAN-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42102.
<2> Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 9 - January, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3754.
<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 166 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M3.6 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 14-JAN-64. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 9 - January, 1964. |
| <3> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 166. |
| <4> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M3.6. |
