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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NE 353
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Palaeolithic handaxe, found in Chatham new dock, opposite Upnor Castle; found c. 1904 during construction of the new dock at St. Mary's Island

Summary

Palaeolithic handaxe, found in Chatham new dock, opposite Upnor Castle

Grid Reference:TQ 767 702
Map Sheet:TQ77SE
Parish:GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, 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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A fine Palaeolithic handaxe, found just below marsh surface before construction of new slip in c. 1904 (1, 2), and listed by Roe in Rochester Museum (3), then included in the Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project (4, 5). Site photograph (6).


<1> Payne, G., 1905, Researches and Discoveries In Kent, 1902- 1904: Chatham Dockyard (Article in serial). SKE12471.

<2> Lesley Howes, Archaeological Services, 1993, Commissioners Garden, Chatham Dockyard - Excavation Prior to Restoration 1993 (Unpublished document). SWX6891.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p144 (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], M 5.9 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], M 5.9 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

<6> 1994, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11124.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Payne, G.. 1905. Researches and Discoveries In Kent, 1902- 1904: Chatham Dockyard. Archaeologia Cantiana 27: lxv.
<2>Unpublished document: Lesley Howes, Archaeological Services. 1993. Commissioners Garden, Chatham Dockyard - Excavation Prior to Restoration 1993.
<3>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p144.
<4>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M 5.9.
<5>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps]. M 5.9.
<6>Photograph (Print): 1994. Photograph. TQ7669/23. print.