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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 86 NE 20
Type of record:Findspot
Name:On railway, west of Newington station: handaxe surface find

Summary

Two Lower Palaeolithic handaxes picked up on the railway west of Newington Station by Prof. T. McK. Hughes in 1862. Objects found on Head geology.

Grid Reference:TQ 8568 6500
Map Sheet:TQ86NE
Parish:NEWINGTON, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Full description

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[Area centred TQ 85356505). A palaeolithic implement, 5" long with rounded point and truncated base, picked up on the railway west of Newington Station by Prof. T. McK. Hughes in 1862. (1,2)

2 Palaeo. Handaxes counted by F. Wenban-Smith. [3]


[Area centred TQ 85680 65000). A palaeolithic implement, 5" long with rounded point and truncated base, picked up on the railway west of Newington Station by Prof. T. McK. Hughes in 1862. (1, 2, 3, 4)


Clinch, G., 1908, Early Man, p336 (Article in monograph). SKE29686.

<1> Evans, J., 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, p 611 (Monograph). SWX6573.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M-6.6, p 133 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<4> 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Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], M-6.6 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Article in monograph: Clinch, G.. 1908. Early Man. p336.
<1>Monograph: Evans, J.. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. p 611.
<3>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M-6.6, p 133.
<4>XYUnpublished 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]. M-6.6. [Mapped feature: #29545 Find, ]