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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SE 1002 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Greenhithe, general Palaeolithic finds of uncertain provenance. |
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Summary
General Palaeolithic finds of uncertain provenance from the Greenhithe area, 37 handaxes, 1 core and 6 pieces that could be debitage or flake-tools.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 588 747 |
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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 125000 BC)
Associated Finds
- CORE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
- WORKED FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)
Full description
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General Palaeolithic finds of uncertain provenance from the Greenhithe area, 37 handaxes, 1 core and 6 pieces that could be debitage or flake-tools. Material provenanced to 'Greenhithe' seen by Roe in his 1960s tour of museums (1), then included in SRPP (2).
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p154 (Monograph). SWX6570.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 4.16 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p154. |
| <2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 4.16. |
