Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Lower Palaeolithic handaxe with a missing pointand flake found prior to 1897 in a pit 0.5 miles east of Teynham Station on the north of the railway line. Objects found on possibly Head geology.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

• FLAKE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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A large implement which, though wanting its point,is 8 inches long, was found by Professor Hughes in gravel, said to have been brought from a pit on the hill north of the railway, and 0.5miles east of Teynham station. (1)

Teynham - Palaeolithic implement (large), (a) Neolithic implements. [No sub-reference for the Neolithic implements and no other references to Neolithic implements from Teynham can be traced; except a polished stone axe from Teynham - Kent 33 NE 8.] (2)

[Area TQ 9678 6333] Find sited to the only pit on the hill, a clay pit, and to its area as shown on the O.S. 1909. (3)

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

<2> Clinch, G., 1908, Early Man, p. 337 (Article in monograph). SKE29686.

<3> F1 ASP 16-JUL-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42135.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 96 SE 15 - July, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4904.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M-7.1, p. 134 (Monograph). SWX6569.

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