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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 66 SE 178
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Punish Farm, Birling: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary

Punish Farm, Birling: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe

Grid Reference:TQ 66970 63025
Map Sheet:TQ66SE
Parish:SNODLAND, 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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Punish Farm, Birling: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe recorded by Roe in the 1960s in collection of London Institute of Archaeology (2), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (3). Locality shown on Prestwich's map (1), as well as in historic OS mapping from late 19th century and early 20th century.


<1> Prestwich J, , 1892, On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. , Pl. 18 (Article in serial). ske55095.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p162 (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], M4.21 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1892. On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. . Journal of the Anthropological Institute 21: 246-262. Pl. 18.
<2>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p162.
<3>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M4.21.