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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 66 NW 49 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Nurstead: surface-find of a broken Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Nurstead: surface-find of one broken Palaeolithic handaxe
| Grid Reference: | TQ 63250 68810 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ66NW |
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| Parish: | MEOPHAM, 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 64006868 Sited to Nurstead Wood only) Palaeolithic implements (1-2 -3) Found by W Whitaker of the Geological Survey (2), recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4), and then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (3).
<1> VCH Kent 1 1908 336 (G Clinch) (OS Card Reference). SKE50840.
<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], NWK 2.61 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 169 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 1 1908 336 (G Clinch). |
| <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]. NWK 2.61. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 169. |
