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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 66 NE 35 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Cobham: surface-find of a broken Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Surface-find of a broken Palaeolithic handaxe, found by W Whitaker of the Geological Society in the parish of Cobham.
Grid Reference: | TQ 66720 68350 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ66NE |
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Parish: | COBHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
Full description
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(TQ 6868 Sited to Cobham Parish only) Palaeolithic implement. (1-2)
3 Palaeolithic handaxes counted by F. Wenban-Smith. [3] Present whereabouts unknown, recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4) based on Evans' report (2).
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 145 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<2> Anc Stone Imps 1897 611 (J Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE33058.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M 5.1 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 145. |
<2> | OS Card Reference: Anc Stone Imps 1897 611 (J Evans). |
<3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M 5.1. |