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Monument details

HER Number:TR 26 NW 1029
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Palaeolithic handaxe, from beach below cliff at Bishopstone

Summary

Palaeolithic handaxe, from beach below cliff at Bishopstone


Grid Reference:TR 211 689
Map Sheet:TR26NW
Parish:HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Unknown date)
  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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Palaeolithic handaxe from beach below cliff at Bishopstone (1, 2).


<1> Whitstable and Herne Bay Museums, Catalogue of accessions, H248 (Index). SWX9398.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-7, No. 4, p 152 (Monograph). SWX6569.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Index: Whitstable and Herne Bay Museums. Catalogue of accessions. H248.
<2>Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-7, No. 4, p 152.