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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 87 SE 1000 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic handaxe, surface find on Deadman's Island |
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Summary
Palaeolithic handaxe, surface find on Deadman's Island
| Grid Reference: | TQ 895 727 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ87SE |
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| Parish: | QUEENBOROUGH, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Full description
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Handaxe found in alluvium on Deadman's Island. (1)
Palaeolithic handaxe, surface find on Deadman's Island; on display in Gillingham Museum (1)
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], M-6.12, p 134 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M-6.12, p 134. |
