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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 381 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic handaxe at Starkey's Farm, Wouldham |
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Summary
A Palaeolithic handaxe was found at Starkey's Farm, no info on circumstances of discovery
| Grid Reference: | TQ 714 656 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NW |
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| Parish: | WOULDHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, 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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Seen by Roe in the Geological Museum collection in the 1960s (1), then listed in the Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project (2, 3)
<[1]> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p172 (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], M 4.12 (Monograph). SWX6569.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], M 4.12 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <[1]> | Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p172. |
| <2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. M 4.12. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps]. M 4.12. |
