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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SE 161 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Southfleet, Bean/Stonewood brickyard: one Palaeolithic handaxe in Dartford Museum, circumstances of recovery unknown |
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Summary
Located in Dartford Museum is a Palaeolithic handaxe from Stonewood Brickyard. There is no further information on the handaxe.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5867 7289 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SE |
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| Parish: | BEAN, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC (at some time) to 40001 BC (at some time))
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC? to 40001 BC?)
Full description
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Located in Dartford Museum is a palaeolithic handaxe from Stonewood Brickyard. There is no further information on the handaxe.(1-3) Recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (3).
<1> Essex County Council & Kent County Council, 2003, Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary, KT890 (Unpublished document). SKE12012.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 4.11 (A) (Monograph). SWX6569.
<3> 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Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], NWK 4.11 (A) (Unpublished document). SKE12023.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 176 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Essex County Council & Kent County Council. 2003. Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary. KT890. |
| <2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 4.11 (A). |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993.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]. NWK 4.11 (A). |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p 176. |
