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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 86 NW 8
Type of record:	Findspot
Name:	Flint implement/U

Summary

Palaeolithic implement found from a railway cutting which is in an area of mainly head geology.

Grid Reference:	TQ 84 65
Map Sheet:	TQ86NW
Parish:	HARTLIP, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)

Associated Finds

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Undated)

Full description

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A rudely chipped flint implement said to have been found in a pit near the railway - cutting at Hartlip in 1862. Found by ProfT Mck Hughes. (1-3)

<1> Anc Stone Imps of Gt Britain 1872 533 (J Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE33060.

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

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites (Monograph). SWX6570.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref.	Source description
<1>XY	OS Card Reference: Anc Stone Imps of Gt Britain 1872 533 (J Evans). [Mapped feature: #29990 find, ]
<2>	Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text].
<3>	Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355.