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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 SW 98 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | A palaeolithic handaxe, Bluebell Hill, Aylesford |
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Summary
A Palaeolithic handaxe was found on Bluebell Hill, Aylesford. No other information is available.
It has been included in the list of discoveries recorded by The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project Report 2 1993. This list includes all finds of the Lower and Middle Palaeothic periods in England, south of the rivers Severn and Thames.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 74310 62425 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76SW |
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| Parish: | AYLESFORD, 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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A Palaeo. Handaxe counted by F. Wenban-Smith. [1] Bluebell Hill: one Palaeolithic handaxe, circumstances of recovery unknown - recorded by Roe in the 1960s (1), then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (2)
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p140 (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 4.24 (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. p140. |
| <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 4.24. |
