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Monument details

Summary

Sleed Wood, Hougham "a", surface find of Mousterian handaxe, bout coupe form

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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Handaxe surface findspots at Sleed Wood first reported by Crellin (1), then Halliwell and Parfitt give more precise info on two different handaxe findspots at the location (2), this one taken as "a". Site later included in Southern Rivers Project. Crellin's HA looks quite bout coupe; Halliwell & Parfitt give very precise findspots for two handaxes, but uncertain which handaxe is from which findspot. In the Stour Basin Palaeolithic Project Francis Wenban-Smith suggested that "a" is most likely to be the possible bout coupe in Crellin 1974(3, 4).

<1> Crellin, TD, 1974, Public support for the archaeologist. (Article in serial). SKE29860.

<2> Halliwell, G. & Parfitt, K, 1993, Non-river gravel Lower and Middle Palaeolithic discoveries in East Kent (Article in serial). SKE29751.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-5.7, p149 (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Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S5 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

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