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Monument details

HER Number:TR 34 SW 1098
Type of record:Monument
Name:Guston, Dover-Lydden by-pass - recovery of two Palaeolithic handaxes from spoil dug from roadside drainage trench

Summary

Guston, Dover-Lydden by-pass - recovery of two Palaeolithic handaxes from spoil dug from roadside drainage trench

Grid Reference:TR 3220 4440
Map Sheet:TR34SW
Parish:GUSTON, DOVER, 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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Two nice Lower Palaeolithic handaxes, both in fresh condition, found only 15m apart in January 1976 in clayey brickearth excavated for southern roadside drainage gully (1). One of them is a slightly elongated ovate shape, patinated/stained ivory colour. The other is also ivory coloured, and looks to have been a more pointed form, but its tip is broken off. Also included in the Southern Rivers Project (2, 3)


<1> Bradshaw J, 1976, Reports from local Secretaries and Groups, Ashford Archaeological society: Ashford (Article in serial). SKE29689.

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Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S5 (Unpublished document).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

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Bradshaw J. 1976. Reports from local Secretaries and Groups, Ashford Archaeological society: Ashford.
<2>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text].
<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Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993.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]. S5.