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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 74 SW 2 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Marden, 1/4 mile SW of church: surface-find of one broken ovate Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
A broken ovate flint implement was found on the surface about a quarter of a mile south west of Marden Church in 1865. This site has been developed as the Cockpits Housing Estate.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7413 4435 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ74SW |
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| Parish: | MARDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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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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[Area centred TQ 74134436]. A broken ovate flint implement was picked up on the surface about a quarter of a mile south west of Marden Church in 1865. (1) Additional bibliography. (2-3) Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (3).
<1> ASI 1897 610 (J Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE37410.
<2> VCH 1 kent 1908 336 (G Clinch) (OS Card Reference). SKE50802.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M3.4 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 166 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: ASI 1897 610 (J Evans). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: VCH 1 kent 1908 336 (G Clinch). |
| <3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M3.4. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 166. |
