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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 03 SE 110 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Surface-find of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe at Aldergate Wood, Lympne |
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Summary
A surface findspot of a lower Palaeolithic handaxe on the edge of a path near Lympne.
| Grid Reference: | TR 096 348 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR03SE |
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| Parish: | LYMPNE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Associated Finds
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
Full description
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The findspot of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe found on the surface in Aldergate Wood, near Lympne. The material has been inferred to have been derived from the local 'Hythe Beds' where many well stained flint lumps in the soil capping this could have profvided the raw meterial for the handaxe.(1-2)
<1> Halliwell G and Parfitt K, 2000, A Palaeolithic handaxe found near Lympne, Kent, (Article in serial). SKE16140.
<2> Romney Marsh Research Trust, 2010, Romney Marsh Research Trust Gazetteer 2010 (Unpublished document). SKE16034.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Halliwell G and Parfitt K. 2000. A Palaeolithic handaxe found near Lympne, Kent,. kent Archaeological Review 141 pp 11-12. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Romney Marsh Research Trust. 2010. Romney Marsh Research Trust Gazetteer 2010. |
