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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NE 260 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | surface-finds of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes from Ightham, east side of Oldbury Hill, "The Knoll" or "Ightham Knoll" |
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Summary
surface-finds of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes reported from east side of Oldbury Hill, "The Knoll" or "Ightham Knoll", one of them still in collection of Maidstone Museum
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58680 55985 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NE |
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| Parish: | IGHTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, 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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surface-finds of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes reported in late 19th century from east side of Oldbury Hill, "The Knoll" or "Ightham Knoll" (1, 2), one of them still in collection of Maidstone Museum recorded by Roe in the 1960s (3), and 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, p284 (Article in serial). SKE31330.
<2> Evans, J., 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, p608 (Monograph). SWX6573.
<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p161 (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], NWK6.34 (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. p284. |
| <2> | Monograph: Evans, J.. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. p608. |
| <3> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p161. |
| <4> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK6.34. |
