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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 57 SW 274
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Hextable, general area: surface-finds of three Palaeolithic handaxes and one possible flake-tool

Summary

Hextable, general area: surface-finds of three Palaeolithic handaxes and one possible flake-tool


Grid Reference:TQ 51260 70820
Map Sheet:TQ57SW
Parish:HEXTABLE, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Full description

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3 Paleo. Handaxes and 1 piece of debitage counted by F. Wenban-Smith. [1]

circumstances of recovery unknown, no info on precise locations. This material listed separately by Roe from finds from Horticultural Institute (2), so considered as a different group of material rather than a duplicate record of the Horticultural Institute material (see MWX20797); listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (1).


<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 3.26 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p156 (Monograph). SWX6570.

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 3.26.
<2>Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p156.