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Monument details

Summary

Palaeolithic handaxe, found near Stoke by W Whitaker in the late 19th C on Terrace 2 Gravel or Head geology.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Handaxe is held held in the Warren collection at the British Museum. Its finding was mentioned by Evans (1), and it was recorded by Roe (2), and then examined in 2005 for the Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project (3). It is a small sub-triangular shape with a rounded tip, and well-abraded. Listed in the Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project (4, 5). NB, this record possibly corresponds with the handaxe found by Whitaker in a pit SW of Allhallows Church (6), although this has its own HER record, TQ 87 NW 58

<1> Evans, J., 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, p611 (Monograph). SWX6573.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p176 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> Wenban-Smith F. F., Bates M.R and Marshall G., 2007, Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project Final Report: The Palaeolithic Resource in the Medway Gravels (Kent) (Unpublished document). SKE29351.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M 5.16 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<5> 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Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], M 5.16 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

<6> Whitaker, W, 1889, Geology of London and of Part of the Thames Valley, Vol I. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, HMSO., p442 (Monograph). SKE29899.

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