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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SE 176 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Seal, Diantshatch Wood: surface-find/s of Palaeolithic handaxes from patch of terrace gravel |
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Summary
Seal, Diantshatch Wood: surface-find/s of Palaeolithic handaxes from patch of terrace gravel in late 19th century, marked on Prestwich's map of handaxe find-spots
| Grid Reference: | TQ 56655 54435 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SE |
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| Parish: | SEAL, SEVENOAKS, 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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Seal, Diantshatch Wood: surface-find/s of Palaeolithic handaxes from patch of terrace gravel in late 19th century, marked on Prestwich's map of handaxe find-spots (Pl. VII) as "Upper Valley Gravel implement" (1).
<1> Prestwich J, , 1891, On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. , Plate VII (Article in serial). ske55094.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1891. On the age, formation, and successive drift-stages of the Darent; with remarks on the Palaeolithic implements of the district, and on the origin of the Chalk escarpment. . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 47: 126-163. Plate VII. |
