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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 16 NW 18 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Palaeolithic flint implements were found in August 1860, in rail cutting east of Whitstable |
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Summary
Palaeolithic flint implements were found in August 1860, in rail cutting east of Whitstable. The present location of the flints is not known.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1181 6650 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR16NW |
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| Parish: | WHITSTABLE, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Associated Finds
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)
Full description
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Several Palaeolithic flint implements were found in August 1860 by Mr. Robert Prebble Goldfinch during the construction of a railway cutting E. of Whitstable and at the highest point of the cutting at TR 11816650. The present location of the flints is not known (1-4).
<1> Inf Mr Wallace C Harvey (local historian) 53 Oxford St Whitstable (OS Card Reference). SKE44357.
<2> MS Railway Plan and Notes in possession of Mr Harvey (OS Card Reference). SKE47465.
<3> F1 ASP 29.11.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42341.
<4> Field report for monument TR 16 NW 18 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5545.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Inf Mr Wallace C Harvey (local historian) 53 Oxford St Whitstable. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: MS Railway Plan and Notes in possession of Mr Harvey. |
| <3>XY | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 29.11.63. [Mapped feature: #44199 Find, ] |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 NW 18 - November, 1963. |
