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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 406 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Medway Tunnel (East) Bout Coupe Handaxe |
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Summary
Medway Tunnel (Eastern entrance), Bout Coupe handaxe, found during archaeological investigations in 1995
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7635 6990 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Palaeolithic - 125000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Middle Palaeolithic to Upper Palaeolithic - 125000 BC to 40000 BC)
Full description
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Reported as found in a sand/silt-filled gully cut into Pleistocene gravels on the north side of the cutting for the eastern approach (1, 2). handaxe is of small size, and was described as of similar shape to one from Christchurch (3).
<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2002, Archaeological Works on the Eastern Approach of the Medway Tunnel (Unpublished document). SKE15912.
<2> Pine CA, Rennie A, Williamson VD, 1995, An assessment of the geoarchaeological and environmental aspects of phase III of the Medway Tunnel engineering scheme archaeological evaluation. (Unpublished document). SKE51534.
<3> Tyldesley JA, 1987, The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford. (Bibliographic reference). SKE29688.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2002. Archaeological Works on the Eastern Approach of the Medway Tunnel. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Pine CA, Rennie A, Williamson VD. 1995. An assessment of the geoarchaeological and environmental aspects of phase III of the Medway Tunnel engineering scheme archaeological evaluation.. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Tyldesley JA. 1987. The Bout Coupé Handaxe: a Typological Problem. British Series 170. BAR, Oxford.. |
