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Monument details

Summary

Faversham, Copton-in-Preston - multiple handaxe finds, including one Mousterian bout coupe handaxe

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

• HANDAXE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)
• HANDAXE (Middle Palaeolithic - 150000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Small blueish-white patinated handaxe of British Mousterian bout coupe form illustrated by Smith (1), originally found by G Rice, but no info on provenance. Roe (2) later found three handaxes from "Copton" or "Copton-in-Preston" in British Museum collection and regarded one of them as of bout coupe form (3). Tyldesley (4) could not find a bout coupe specimen in her later review. Site later included in Southern Rivers Project (5, 6).

<1> Smith, R.A., 1916, Origin of the Neolithic celt. (Article in serial). SKE29889.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p152 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> Roe, D.A., 1981, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain., p260 (Monograph). SKE29687.

<4> Tyldesley JA, 1987, The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford., p72 (Bibliographic reference). SKE29688.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-4.37, p148 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<6> 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Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S-4 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

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