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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NE 7 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Pointed handaxe discovered on Abbotscliff at the south end of Hougham parish just west of Dover |
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Summary
Pointed handaxe discovered on Abbotscliff at the south end of Hougham parish just west of Dover. Object found on Clay-with-flints geology.
| Grid Reference: | TR 277 389 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NE |
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| Parish: | HOUGHAM WITHOUT, DOVER, KENT |
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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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[TR 277 389] J. Coles discovered a pointed flint handaxe on Abbotscliff at the south end of Hougham parish just west of Dover on land farmed by Mr G. Stokes of Little Hougham Court (1, 2). The handaxe is 9.5 cms long by 7.4 cms wide and typologically it matches Type Fb/1 in Wymers's 1968 classification scheme (3). Handaxe remains with finder.
<1> Coles, J, 1986, A Palaeolithic hand-axe from Hougham., ) (Article in serial). SKE29750.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-5, No.6, p 149 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Article in serial: Coles, J. 1986. A Palaeolithic hand-axe from Hougham.. Kent Archaeological Review 86: 122-123.. ). [Mapped feature: #44577 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]. S-5, No.6, p 149. |
