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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NW 37 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Four Bronze Age looped and socketed axes found at Aylesford |
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Summary
In the British Museum collection are 4 looped and socketed axes found in Aylesford at an unspecified site. The find is recorded before 1930. One axe has a square mouth and three ribs on the face. Another has bevelled sides and a splayed cutting edge.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 72 59 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NW |
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| Parish: | AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
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BA socketed axes in the British Museum included in list of antiquities found at Aylesford. One with square mouth and three ribs on face, another has bevelled sides and splayed cutting edge. (1) Four looped and socketed axes from Aylesford, in the British Museum. (2)
<1> Arch. of Kent (1930) Plate V Nos. 1& 2 p. 251 p.106 (R.F. Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE37165.
<2> Maidstone Museum Arch. Gazetteer MS in progress (OS Card Reference). SKE46442.
<3> F1 ASP 06-MAY-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE41964.
<4> Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 37 - May, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3899.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch. of Kent (1930) Plate V Nos. 1& 2 p. 251 p.106 (R.F. Jessup). [Mapped feature: #19921 Find, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum Arch. Gazetteer MS in progress. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 06-MAY-59. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 75 NW 37 - May, 1959. |
