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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SW 53 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Two Palaeolithic handaxes from Wood's pit, Dartford Heath |
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Summary
Palaeolithic implements were found prior to 1912 in Wood's Pit, Dartford Heath, probably in a derieved context.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 52 73 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SW |
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| Parish: | DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT |
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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 Palaeolithic handaxes from Wood's pit, Dartford Heath found pre 1912. One of them "a rough and much battered implement, Chelles type, from the false-bedded gravel" (1), presumed to be reworked and much older than the gravel. Also a roughly flaked implement, slightly abraded. Not in Dartford Museum (2). Wood's Pit identified as mineral extraction site KT 723 in 2003 survey (3).
<1> Chandler RH, Leach AL,, 1912, On the Dartford Heath Gravel and on a Palaeolithic implement factory., p125 (Article in serial). SKE32226.
<2> F1 ASP 16-OCT-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42140.
<3> Essex County Council & Kent County Council, 2003, Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary, #723 (Unpublished document). SKE12012.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Chandler RH, Leach AL,. 1912. On the Dartford Heath Gravel and on a Palaeolithic implement factory.. Proceedings of the Geologists Association 23: 102-111. p125. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 16-OCT-59. |
| <3>XY | Unpublished document: Essex County Council & Kent County Council. 2003. Archaeological Survey of Mineral Extraction Sites around the Thames Estuary. #723. [Mapped feature: #78904 Find, ] |
