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Monument details

HER Number:TR 24 SE 34
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Two palaeolithic handaxes, surface finds from Whitfield area, near Dover eastern by-pass

Summary

Two palaeolithic handaxes, surface finds from Whitfield area, near Dover eastern by-pass


Grid Reference:TR 296 448
Map Sheet:TR24SE
Parish:TEMPLE EWELL, DOVER, KENT
WHITFIELD, DOVER, KENT

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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TR 296448. Two Palaeolithic handaxes were found by Gordon Hutchinson in the Whitfield area of the new eastern bypass. (1, 2)


<1> Hutchinson G, 1976, Two Palaeolithic hand axes from Whitfield (Article in serial). SKE29754.

<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. 8, p 149 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYArticle in serial: Hutchinson G. 1976. Two Palaeolithic hand axes from Whitfield. Kent Archaeological Review 45: 130. [Mapped feature: #47526 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. 8, p 149.