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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SW 96 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Three Palaeolithic handaxes from Lower Higham |
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Summary
Three Palaeolithic handaxes from Lower Higham, one of them from "Grain Pit", location of which isn't known.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 70 73 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SW |
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| Parish: | HIGHAM, GRAVESHAM, 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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Three handaxes from Lower Higham, one of them from "Grain Pit", location of which isn't known, listed by Roe (1). There was a complex of pits at Higham (now Lower Higham) in the late 19th and early 20th C, at c. TQ 703 736. Finds later included in SRPP (2).
<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p 156 (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 5.4 (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. p 156. |
| <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 5.4. |
