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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SE 1089 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic handaxes, surface finds from "top fields" beside "the Great Pit, Milton Street" |
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Summary
60 Palaeolithic handaxes, surface finds from "top fields" beside "the Great Pit, Milton Street", made in the late 19th C. by H Stopes. Later excavations to the south showed this area has high palaolithic potential. (location accurate to the nearest 100m based on available information)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 596 744 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SE |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- DEBITAGE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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60 Pal handaxes, surface finds from "top fields" beside "the Great Pit, Milton Street", made in the late 19th C by H Stopes (1). Also more than 70 pieces of debitage. Location later incorporated in Barnfield Pit expansion.
<1> Wenban-Smith F. F., March 2004, The Stopes Palaeolithic Project: Final Report, # 22 (Unpublished document). SWX12877.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Wenban-Smith F. F.. March 2004. The Stopes Palaeolithic Project: Final Report. # 22. |
