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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NW 80 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Wested, general area: surface-finds of two Palaeolithic handaxes |
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Summary
Findspot of at least two Lower Palaeolithic handaxes in an area of Chalk or Clay-with-flints geology.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 51700 66800 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NW |
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| Parish: | EYNSFORD, SEVENOAKS, 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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[TQ 5166, sited to place name only]. Diminutive hand axe, 2.2 inches long, without its point from Wested. White and bluish patina with slight iron moulding; crusted on rather thick butt. (1) Paleolithic implements found at Wested and near Farningham Fort on thewest side of the Darent valley. (2) TQ 5166 Findspot of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe in an area of Chalk or Clay-with-flints geology. (3-4)
Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites (Monograph). SWX6570.
<1> PPSEA 2 1914-18 109 fig 7 (H Dewey) (OS Card Reference). SKE48620.
<2> PPSEA 3 1918-22 268 (H Dewey) (OS Card Reference). SKE48625.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text] (Monograph). SWX6569.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p187 (Monograph). SWX6570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. |
| <1> | OS Card Reference: PPSEA 2 1914-18 109 fig 7 (H Dewey). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: PPSEA 3 1918-22 268 (H Dewey). |
| <3> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p187. |
