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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 66 SW 99
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Wrotham, Wrotham Hill: Palaeolithic handaxe, presumed surface-find

Summary

Wrotham, Wrotham Hill: Palaeolithic handaxe, presumed surface-find, held in Maidstone Museum

Grid Reference:TQ 61640 60790
Map Sheet:TQ66SW
Parish:STANSTED, 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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Wrotham, Wrotham Hill: Palaeolithic handaxe, presumed surface-find, held in Maidstone Museum. Old records of finds from gravelly patch on wrotham Hill (1, 2). Many were probably eoliths, but at least one genuine Palaeolithic handaxe held in Maidstone Museum, and recorded by Roe in the 1960s (3) then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (4).


<1> Prestwich, J., 1889, On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age, p270 (Article in serial). SKE31330.

<2> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p161 (Monograph). SKE55068.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p189 (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], NWK2.4 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Prestwich, J.. 1889. On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age. Vol 45, 270 - 297. p270.
<2>Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p161.
<3>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p189.
<4>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK2.4.