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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 65 NE 463
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Offham, Comp: surface-finds of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes, from Comp, and "East Comp"

Summary

Offham, Comp: surface-finds of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes, from Comp, and "East Comp"

Grid Reference:	TQ 65200 57290
Map Sheet:	TQ65NE
Parish:	OFFHAM, 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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Offham, Comp: surface-finds of at least two Palaeolithic handaxes, from Comp, and "East Comp", the latter locality equating with Comp Farm, and being the easternmost of the trio of Great Comp, Little Comp and Comp. Benjamin Harrison visited "implement-bearing drift" to east of Comp in 1888 (1), vicinity of "old lane back to Comp from Offham". Two Palaeolithic handaxes were recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2), one in Rochester Museum and the other in British Museum, then locality listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (3).

<1> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , p136 (Monograph). SKE55068.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p169 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M4.19 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>	Monograph: Harrison, ER. 1928. Harrison of Ightham. . p136.
<2>	Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p169.
<3>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M4.19.