Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

30 Flint arrowheads found on Windmill Hill

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC? to 2351 BC?)

Associated Finds

• ARROW (Undated)

Full description

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[Area centred TQ 63005784] A letter of Benj. Harrison, 12.5.1914, tells of a visit to Windmill Hill in order to examine a plantation where some 30 arrowheads had been found by a youth in the preceding months. "From the paucity of flakes and cores I took the place to be a site to which animals resorted for water". (1) Windmill Hill is a prominent sand knoll covered by a dense plantation on its lower slopes and undergrowth and gorse on its upper slopes. E. Harrison is now dead and no further information on site was gained; none of the arrowheads are held at Maidstone Museum. (2) Note by Benj. Harrison 30 12 1888. To Gallows Hill. On the lower spread near the level crossing I found a portion of an implement. Examined knoll, north of rectory: a few pieces of flint were seen, and ochreous fragments on south-west flank. (Gallows Hill is another name for Windmill Hill). (3)

<1> Harrison of Ightham 1928 306 (E.R Harrison) (OS Card Reference). SKE43718.

<2> F1 CFW 26-FEB-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42770.

<3> Harrison of Ightham 1928 140 (E R Harrison) (OS Card Reference). SKE43704.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 65 NW 21 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3357.

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