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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 52 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic handaxe found by gate to Officers' Recreation Ground, Chatham Lines |
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Summary
Palaeolithic handaxe found by G Payne in c. 1904 by gate to Officers' Recreation Ground, Chatham Lines, and then given to Rochester Museum
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7616 6847 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, 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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According to Payne (1), the handaxe was fund amongst spoil from construction of a nearby military railway, the location of which isn't known, but unlikely to be far distant
<1> Payne, G., 1905, Researches and Discoveries In Kent, 1902- 1904: Chatham Dockyard (Article in serial). SKE12471.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Article in serial: Payne, G.. 1905. Researches and Discoveries In Kent, 1902- 1904: Chatham Dockyard. Archaeologia Cantiana 27: lxv. [Mapped feature: #92071 find, ] |
