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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 SW 19
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Thames pick found in Halling parish

Summary

A Mesolithic Thames pick axe, thought to have been found in Halling, is held in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The precise location or date of its discovery are uncertain. No further information was available.


Grid Reference:TQ 70 63
Map Sheet:TQ76SW
Parish:HALLING, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC (between))

Associated Finds

  • AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)

Full description

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A Thames pick from Halling is in Cambridge University Museum of Arch. and Ethnology. Acc. No.55.90 (1-2)

Additional Info (3)


<1> London Museum Card Index (OS Card Reference). SKE46151.

<2> Letter (Miss M.D. Cra'ster, 23.11.63) [AO/C/XC] (OS Card Reference). SKE46059.

<3> Lawson-Price Environmental, 1996, Specification for Archaeological & Historical Landscape Baseline Studies: Holborough (Unpublished document). SKE7127.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: London Museum Card Index.
<2>XYOS Card Reference: Letter (Miss M.D. Cra'ster, 23.11.63) [AO/C/XC]. [Mapped feature: #24278 find, ]
<3>Unpublished document: Lawson-Price Environmental. 1996. Specification for Archaeological & Historical Landscape Baseline Studies: Holborough.