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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 57 SW 113
Type of record:Findspot
Name:One Palaeolithic handaxe from bottom of Oakfield Lane, junction with Lowfield Street, Wilmington

Summary

One Palaeolithic handaxe from bottom of Oakfield Lane, junction with Lowfield Street, Wilmington

Grid Reference:TQ 5406 7292
Map Sheet:TQ57SW
Parish:DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Full description

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One handaxe from bottom of Oakfield Lane, junction with Lowfield Street, Wilmington, seen by Roe in Dartford Museum (1) and also mentioned by Wymer (2). Find is equated with Brotherwood's Pit to the south in SRPP (3) but no basis for this. Brotherwood's Pit deposits described by Shephard-Thorn (from Dewey's notes) as very disturbed with mixed masses of Coombe Rock. (4)


<1> David Hicken Associates, 1995, Beam Engines Henwood Pumping Station, p148 (Unpublished document). SKE6570.

<2> Wymer, JJ, 1968, Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain as represented by the Thames Valley., p331 (Monograph). SKE29697.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 4.1 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<4> Shephard-Thorn, E.R., Edited text of Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture 1959, by Henry Dewey on: Palaeolithic Deposits of the Thames at Dartford Heath and Swanscombe., p23-24 (Unpublished document). SKE32257.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: David Hicken Associates. 1995. Beam Engines Henwood Pumping Station. p148.
<2>XYMonograph: Wymer, JJ. 1968. Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain as represented by the Thames Valley.. p331. [Mapped feature: #84208 find, ]
<3>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 4.1.
<4>Unpublished document: Shephard-Thorn, E.R.. Edited text of Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture 1959, by Henry Dewey on: Palaeolithic Deposits of the Thames at Dartford Heath and Swanscombe.. p23-24.