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Monument details

HER Number:TR 26 NW 1218
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Three handaxes in Maidstone Museum, found on shore at Reculver

Summary

Three handaxes in Maidstone Museum, found on shore at Reculver

Grid Reference:TR 21 69
Map Sheet:TR26NW
Parish:HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY, 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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Three handaxes on display in Maidstone Museum (5, 6), found on shore at Reculver. Numerous other handaxe finds recorded along shoreline to west of Reculver fort (1-4).


<1> Prestwich, J., 1861, Notes on some further discoveries of flint implements in beds of Post-Pliocene Gravel and Clay (Article in serial). SWX6580.

<2> Evans, J., 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, pp. 613, 616 (Monograph). SWX6573.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p. 171 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-7, No's 3 and 4, p 152 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<5> F1 ASP 17.09.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41734.

<6> Field report for monument TR 26 NW 15 - September, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5850.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Prestwich, J.. 1861. Notes on some further discoveries of flint implements in beds of Post-Pliocene Gravel and Clay.
<2>Monograph: Evans, J.. 1897. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain. pp. 613, 616.
<3>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p. 171.
<4>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-7, No's 3 and 4, p 152.
<5>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 17.09.63.
<6>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 26 NW 15 - September, 1963.