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Monument details

HER Number:TR 35 SW 459
Type of record:Monument
Name:Finglesham, Marley Lane - Palaeolithic handaxe recovered from brickearth

Summary

Finglesham, Marley Lane - Palaeolithic handaxe recovered in situ from brickearth

Grid Reference:TR 3336 5350
Map Sheet:TR35SW
Parish:NORTHBOURNE, 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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One large well-made and bluntly-pointed sub-cordate Lower Palaeolithic handaxe with rounded tip and thicker partly-worked butt, in very fresh condition and unpatinated apart from a few small patched of faint blueish-white patina on one face, and made of Bullhead Bed flint, found in March 1991 30-50 cm from g-surface by Mr J Walford when digging hole to plant tree. Mentioned by Halliwell 1992 (1), Halliwell and Parfitt 1993 (2) and included in the Southern Rivers Project (3, 4)


<1> Halliwell G, 1992, Another Palaeolithic hand-axe from Finglesham (Article in serial). SKE29871.

<2> Halliwell, G. & Parfitt, K, 1993, Non-river gravel Lower and Middle Palaeolithic discoveries in East Kent, p88 (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-6.18, p151 (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Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], S6 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Article in serial: Halliwell G. 1992. Another Palaeolithic hand-axe from Finglesham. Kent Archaeological Review 107: 155-158..
<2>Article in serial: Halliwell, G. & Parfitt, K. 1993. Non-river gravel Lower and Middle Palaeolithic discoveries in East Kent. Kent Archaeological Review 114: 80-89.. p88.
<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-6.18, p151.
<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Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993.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]. S6.