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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 65 SW 206
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Shipbourne, Home Farm, Puttenden Level: surface find of Palaeolithic handaxe

Summary

Shipbourne, Home Farm, Puttenden Level: surface find of Palaeolithic handaxe

Grid Reference:TQ 60430 52600
Map Sheet:TQ65SW
Parish:SHIPBOURNE, 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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Shipbourne, Home Farm, Puttenden Level: surface find of Palaeolithic handaxe. A small twisted ovate, slightly pointed, found at c. 240flint OD in late 19th century (1, 2). Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (3), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (4).


<1> Spurrell FCJ, , 1883, Palaeolithic implements found in West Kent. , p95 (Article in serial). ske32204.

<2> Prestwich, J., 1889, On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age, pp 274, 280, 284 (Article in serial). SKE31330.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p171 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M2.4 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Spurrell FCJ, . 1883. Palaeolithic implements found in West Kent. . Archaeologia Cantiana 15: 89-103. p95.
<2>Article in serial: Prestwich, J.. 1889. On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age. Vol 45, 270 - 297. pp 274, 280, 284.
<3>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p171.
<4>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M2.4.