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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 85 SW 327 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Langley, smallholding at west end of Kings Wood: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Langley, smallholding at west end of Kings Wood: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe in 1962
| Grid Reference: | TQ 82125 50910 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ85SW |
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| Parish: | BROOMFIELD AND KINGSWOOD, MAIDSTONE, 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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Langley, smallholding at west end of Kings Wood: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe in 1962, reported to Maidstone Museum (1). It was described as "of mid-Acheulian type", blue/black flint with heavy white patination, and in fairly fresh condition (1). It was recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (3).
<1> Kelly DB, , 1963, Researches and discoveries in Kent: Langley. (Article in serial). ske55084.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p164 (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], M3.9 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Kelly DB, . 1963. Researches and discoveries in Kent: Langley. . Archaeologia Cantiana 77 (for 1962): 205.. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p164. |
| <3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M3.9. |
