Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Surface collection of Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age flint implements

Monument Types

• LITHIC SCATTER (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

• ARROWHEAD (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
• BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
• CORE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
• DEBITAGE (Early Mesolithic to Late Bronze Age - 10000 BC to 701 BC)
• MICROLITH (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
• AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
• SCRAPER (TOOL) (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)

Full description

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[TQ 5422 5490] Polished flint axes, tanged arrowheads, etc. found A.D.1926 [NAT] (1) An occupation floor was noticed from the Great War onwards in the layer of silver sand immediately below the modern turf in Knole Park, Sevenoaks, some 300 yards east of the Golf Club House, at 485ft. O.D.,to the east of and 85ft. above the Knole River. The floor contained flint implements, pot boilers, calcined flints, and charcoal fragments. The implements may be classified as: Polished axes Barbed arrowheads Transverse arrowheads Scrapers Borers ) Blades ) some of which Core scrapers) are microlithic Cores ) Lewis Abbot mentions polished celts and barbed arrowheads with other implements, including pygmy flints, being found in an area about 0.25 miles along the Knole. (2-3) Major Burchell indicated the findspot at TQ 5393 5512 (which disagrees with the O.S. siting but agrees with the siting evidence as given by Burchell in 1926). Finds continued to be made until the construction of the golf course in 1925-26. No further discoveries have since been reported. In Maidstone Museum are Neolithic waste flakes, cores and scrapers from this site. (4) [TQ 535 535 - sited to place name only] A number of mesolithic implements from Knole Park, Sevenoaks are now in Dartford Museum. They include: 1 medium sized tranchet axe 18 blades 6 scrapers 1 graver 1 microlith. Information from R. M. Jacobi. (5)

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> Man July 1926 114 no 72 illust (J P T Burchell) (OS Card Reference). SKE46505.

<3> J R Anthrop 1 25 1895-6 131 (W J Lewis Abbott) (OS Card Reference). SKE44809.

<4> F1 ASP 02-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41899.

<5> CBA Res Rep 20 1977 Gaz of Me and Upper Pa Sites in Engalnd and Wales 157 (J J Wymer) (OS Card Reference). SKE38858.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 55 NW 33 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2823.

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