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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SW 430 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Hextable, grounds of Horticultural Institute: finds of three Palaeolithic handaxes, circumstances of discovery unknown |
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Summary
Hextable, grounds of Horticultural Institute: finds of three Palaeolithic handaxes, circumstances of discovery unknown
| Grid Reference: | TQ 51800 70300 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SW |
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| Parish: | HEXTABLE, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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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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4 Paleo. Handaxes counted by F. Wenban-Smith. [1]
This record covers three handaxes, one of the original four now (as of the 2022 Palaeolithic HER review) having its own separate record (MKE960). Material from the locality was recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2). Then (3) one of them was described as being a twisted ovate, and one as a white-patinated bout coupé. Locality then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (1) based on these earlier reports.
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 3.25 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p156 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<3> Roe DA, 1981, The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain, p260 (Monograph). ske29687.
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]. NWK 3.25. |
| <2> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p156. |
| <3> | Monograph: Roe DA. 1981. The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain. p260. |
