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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 95 SW 7 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Lenham, nr Rowton Chapel: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe |
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Summary
Lenham, nr Rowton Chapel: surface-find of one Palaeolithic handaxe
| Grid Reference: | TQ 90300 50300 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ95SW |
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| Parish: | LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, 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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Near the source of the Stour at Royton Chapel [TQ 95 SW] near Lenham, an ovate palaeolithic flint implement was found in 1885. (1) Find was recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (3).
<1> AS1 1897 618 (J Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE37393.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p164 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p164 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S1.8 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S1.8 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: AS1 1897 618 (J Evans). |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p164. |
| <3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S1.8. |
