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Monument details

Summary

Palaeolithic, or possibly Lower Palaeolithic, handaxe found on the surface of a field in 1974 at Finglesham Farm, on Chalk geology. 51 Lithic implements including knives, blades, scraper and hammer stones found during fieldwalking near Finglesham Farm, Eastry

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

• DEBITAGE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
• HAMMERSTONE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
• RETOUCHED FLAKE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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TR 332541. A Paleolithic handaxe was found on the surface of a field near her home by Mrs Stead of Finglesham Farm near Eastry. (1 - See illustration card) (2). It is large and sub-triangular in plan-view with a thick cross-section. It has a sharp narrow point (slightly damaged), a partly cortical butt and is heavily-patinated white all over. Subsequent field walking recovered 51 flints, all surface finds, on the crest of a small hill. These latter were all of Later Prehistoric type, including pot-boilers, hammerstones, debitage and scrapers. (2)

<1> Gaunt, J., 1975, Palaeolithic hand axe from Finglesham, Kent. (Article in serial). SKE29868.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-6, No. 16, p 151 (Monograph). SWX6569.

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