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Monument details

Summary

3 Palaeolithic handaxes from Bryce's Sand Pit, Forstal Road, Aylesford. The collection is annotated with "1906" and held by Maidstone Museum

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
• HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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3 Palaeolithic handaxes from Bryce's Sand Pit, Forstal Road, Aylesford, the precise location of which is unknown. The collection is annotated with "1906" and held by Maidstone Museum (1, 2, 3). Artefacts re-examined in 2005 for the Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project (4).

<1> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p136 (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], M4.4 (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Project: maps for Report No. 2, Regions 4 & 1, The South West and South of the Thames [Vol II - maps], M4.4 (Unpublished document). SKE12023.

<4> Wenban-Smith F. F., Bates M.R and Marshall G., 2007, Medway Valley Palaeolithic Project Final Report: The Palaeolithic Resource in the Medway Gravels (Kent) (Unpublished document). SKE29351.

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