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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NE 296 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | West Yaldham, near East Lodge entrance to St Clere: broken Palaeolithic handaxe found on ground surface |
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Summary
West Yaldham, near East Lodge entrance to St Clere: broken Palaeolithic handaxe found on ground surface
| Grid Reference: | TQ 58285 58850 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NE |
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| Parish: | WROTHAM, 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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West Yaldham, near East Lodge entrance to St Clere: broken Palaeolithic handaxe found on ground surface, reported by Prestwich in late 19th century (1), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (2)
<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. , p143 (Article in serial). ske55094.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK6.53 (Monograph). SWX6569.
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. p143. |
| <2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK6.53. |
