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Monument details

Summary

Palaeolithic handaxe found 1956 at Swanley, Hextable Horticultural Insitute in Upper Chalk geology.

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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[TQ 51397018 - sited from O.S. 25" 1961] A Middle Acheulian type biface flint axe was found in 1956, on the surface of a field at Hextable Horticultural Institute tennis court (near Rowhill). It was donated to the museum by A/c Hopkins, M.W. (5063/91), Hut 454, 1 Wing, 1 Squadron, 45 of R.T., R.A.F., Wilmslow, Cheshire. (1)(2)

Hopkins was a student at the Institute in 1956. He now works in Sussex. No further information. (3)(a)

Additional reference [4]

Find was one of the handaxes recorded by Roe in the 1960s from the Horticultural Institute (5), later attributed by him as bout coupé (6). It was then listed twice under slightly different descriptions and at two different locations in the Southern Rivers Project (7).

<1> Arch Cant 72,1958, lxii (H.J Balls) (OS Card Reference). SKE35527.

<2> Inf: The Secretary, Kent Farm and Horticultural Institute, Hextable (OS Card Reference). SKE44438.

<3> F1 ASP 18-SEP-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42171.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 57 SW 76 - September, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3183.

<5> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p156 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<6> Roe DA, 1981, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain, p260 (Monograph). ske29687.

<7> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK: 3.24, 3.26 (Monograph). SWX6569.

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