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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 74 NW 9 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Marden, general area: surface-find of a Mesolithic Thames Pick |
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Summary
Various flint axes are held at Maidstone Museum which are listed as coming from Marden. These include a Mesolithic Thames pick. No further information is available.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 72999 45000 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ74NW |
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| Parish: | MARDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
- PICK (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
Full description
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In store at Maidstone Museum and listed as coming from Marden, are three Abberillian and Acheulean hand-axes and an ovate presented by Mrs. Kennard, and Acheulean hand axe from the Beult gravels, and a Me. Thames pick. No further information about these implements is held at Maidstone Museum; Mrs. Kennard is dead. (1) (1-2). See separate HER record for Palaeolithic handaxes.
<1> F1 ASP 14-JAN-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42102.
<2> Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 9 - January, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3754.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 14-JAN-64. |
| <2>XY | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 74 NW 9 - January, 1964. [Mapped feature: #18793 find, ] |
