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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NW 1625
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Canterbury - five Palaeolithic handaxes and debitage from "cemetery"

Summary

Canterbury - five Palaeolithic handaxes and debitage from "cemetery", no info on when/how recovered, or on which cemetery of the several in/around Canterbury

Grid Reference:TR 1360 5840
Map Sheet:TR15NW
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • DEBITAGE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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A collection of five handaxes and four debitage seen by Roe in Plymouth museum (1), then included in Southern Rivers Project (2, 3). No info on which cemetery (or cemeteries) these came from, although SRPP suggests one at TR 136584


<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p141 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<2> 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.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S4 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p141.
<2>Monograph: 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.
<3>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps]. S4.