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Monument details

Summary

Canterbury - two Palaeolithic handaxes from "new cemetery" (in 1897)

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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Report by Evans (1) of a fresh condition and unstained/black handaxe from "the new cemetery", possibly St. Paul's cemetery NGR 615385 157740. Two handaxes provenanced to "new cemetery" seen by Roe (2), one in British Museum, the other in Ashmolean, Oxford; one of these might correspond with that reported by Evans (1). There are also other possible cemetery sites in Canterbury, one of which at NGR 613600 158400 is suggested as possible source of some handaxe finds in the Southern Rivers Project (3)

<1> Evans, J., 1897, The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, p620 (Monograph). SWX6573.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p142 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S4.24, p146 (Monograph). SWX6569.

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