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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 SE 415
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Maidstone, Loose, near Hayle Place: one Palaeolithic handaxe, circumstances of recovery unknown

Summary

Maidstone, Loose, near Hayle Place: one Palaeolithic handaxe in Maidstone Museum, circumstances of recovery unknown


Grid Reference:TQ 75800 53900
Map Sheet:TQ75SE
Parish:TOVIL, MAIDSTONE, 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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Maidstone, Loose, near Hayle Place: one Palaeolithic handaxe in Maidstone Museum, 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, p166 (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], M3.3 (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. p166.
<2>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M3.3.