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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 NE 238 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Ightham, fields named Bayshaw, Robsacks, Heron Shaw and Furze Field: several Palaeolithic handaxes from small gravel pits and ground surfaceents |
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Summary
Ightham, fields named Bayshaw, Robsacks, Heron Shaw and Furze Field: several Palaeolithic handaxes from small gravel pits and ground surface; held in collections of British Museum and Maidstone Museum.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 59125 56865 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55NE |
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| Parish: | IGHTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Harrison's Map 1888 shows three find spots at "Bay Shaw". Prestwich includes this site with "Robsacks". 9 handaxes and 1 retouched flake implement found. (1,2,3,4)
Record created during 2015 Volunteer Project. May correspond with site NWK-6, No. 22.
Material recorded by Roe in the 1960s (4), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (5).
<1> Harrison, Benjamin, 1888, Harrison’s Map. 1888. Draft of map prepared for Professor Prestwich in connection with Prestwich’s paper published in 1889 (Map). SKE30968.
<2> Prestwich, J., 1889, On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age (Article in serial). SKE31330.
<3> Bennett, FJ, 1907, Ightham: The story of a Kentish village and its surroundings (Bibliographic reference). SKE31344.
<4> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, pp 158, 162-163 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<5> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK6.88 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: Harrison, Benjamin. 1888. Harrison’s Map. 1888. Draft of map prepared for Professor Prestwich in connection with Prestwich’s paper published in 1889. |
| <2> | Article in serial: Prestwich, J.. 1889. On the occurrence of Palaeolithic flint implements in the neighbourhood of Ightham Kent, their distribution and probable age. Vol 45, 270 - 297. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Bennett, FJ. 1907. Ightham: The story of a Kentish village and its surroundings. |
| <4> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. pp 158, 162-163. |
| <5> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK6.88. |
