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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 SW 19
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Surface finds of Palaeolithic handaxes in Chartham area

Summary

Surface finds of Palaeolithic handaxes in Chartham area

Grid Reference:TR 10 55
Map Sheet:TR15NW
Parish:CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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A rough pointed handaxe with some fine working at the tip, lightly abraded, found at Chartham at an unknown date; in Royal Museum Acc. No. 8653, gift of Mrs. Back, Chartham (1, 2, 3)

. Also other handaxes known or reported from unknown locations in the Chartham area: Shrigles, Mountsford Bower and Mountsford Valley (4, 5). Additional reference (6).


Additional Reference (2-4)


<1> Royal Mus Canterbury Acc Book (OS Card Reference). SKE49342.

<2> F1 CFW 19.11.69 (OS Card Reference). SKE42641.

<3> Field report for monument TR 15 SW 19 - November, 1969 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5508.

<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p. 144 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.6, p 144 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<6> Lawson-Price Environmental, 1996, Archaeological Desk Based Assessment of Land At St Augustine's Hospital Chartham (Unpublished document). SKE8362.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: Royal Mus Canterbury Acc Book.
<2>OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 19.11.69.
<3>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 15 SW 19 - November, 1969.
<4>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p. 144.
<5>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-4.6, p 144.
<6>Unpublished document: Lawson-Price Environmental. 1996. Archaeological Desk Based Assessment of Land At St Augustine's Hospital Chartham.