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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 908 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | White Cliffs Business Park, Whitfield, Dover - Palaeolithic flakes and two hand-axes |
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Summary
Five waste flakes and two bifacially worked hand-axes were found during a watching brief at White Cliffs Business Park, all are thought to date to the Palaeolithic.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3097 4437 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | WHITFIELD, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKE (Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 10001 BC)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Five waste flakes and two bifacially worked hand-axes were found during a watching brief at White Cliffs Business Park, all are thought to date to the Palaeolithic. One of the hand-axes could be of Middle Palaeolithic date and one is certainly from the Lower Palaeolithic. The debitage could be of any date within the Palaeolithic, or possibly of post-Palaeolithic date (1)
<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2010, Report on Evaluation Trenching in 2010, off Honeywood Parkway, White Cliffs Business Park, Dover (proposed development for, Holdingmaatschappij Hulssems BV) (Unpublished document). SKE18054.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 2010. Report on Evaluation Trenching in 2010, off Honeywood Parkway, White Cliffs Business Park, Dover (proposed development for, Holdingmaatschappij Hulssems BV). |
