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Monument details

HER Number:TR 16 SE 244
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Sturry, two Palaeolithic handaxes from Stonerocks pit

Summary

Sturry, two Palaeolithic handaxes from Stonerocks pit

Grid Reference:TR 190 616
Map Sheet:TR16SE
Parish:STURRY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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Several handaxes "of the Chelles type" reported by Dewey & Smith (1), donated by Ince to British Museum. Roe (2) reported two handaxes from Stonerocks in the BM collection, and site later included in Southern Rivers Project (3, 4). Gravel bed at site reported as at c. 160ft OD (1), same height as deposits at Fordwich, and therefore potentially of similar great age.


<1> Dewey H, Smith RA, 1925, Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent., p134 (Article in serial). SKE29699.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p178 (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], S-4.33, p147 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<4> 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Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S4 (Unpublished document).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>Article in serial: Dewey H, Smith RA. 1925. Flints from the Sturry gravels, Kent.. Kent. Archaeologia 74: 117-136. p134.
<2>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p178.
<3>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-4.33, p147.
<4>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993.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.