Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Bronze and flint implements

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 2600 BC to 700 BC)
• CINERARY URN (CINERARY URN, Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

• ARROW (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
• AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
• LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

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[Name Centred TQ 631453134] Ancient Bronze and Stone Implements, Urns etc. found A.D.1899-1903 [TI] (1) Whilst carrying on excavations in Hurst Wood and north of Gover Hill, a considerable amount of bronze and stone implements were found. They include one stone axe, two small bronze axes, a number of small badly burnt pottery urns, capacity about 1/2 pint (the whole of these however collapsed when exposed to the air). There were also a number of stones which evidently had been used as rubbing stones, a few flint arrowheads, none of them good specimens, and part of a stone which was probably used for grinding flour. (2) F.W.E. Shrivell is dead and no further information on this site was gained in the field; none of the finds are in Maidstone Museum. The area indicated is an old wood on a false crest and there is no record of subsequent finds. (3)

<1> OS 6" 1936 (OS Card Reference). SKE48337.

<2> FWE Shrivell FLS Experimental Station Golden Green Tonbridge Kent (OS Card Reference). SKE43445.

<3> ONB Rev 1936 6a (OS Card Reference). SKE47883.

<4> F1 CFW 18-FEB-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42631.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 65 SW 11 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3458.

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