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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 SE 253
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Smarden: Palaeolithic handaxe (tip of), surface find

Summary

Tip of a Palaeolithic handaxe, Hamden, Smarden


Grid Reference:TQ 8955 4101
Map Sheet:TQ84SE
Parish:SMARDEN, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 40001 BC)

Full description

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Fieldwalking by Smarden Local History Group found a tip of a Palaeolithic handaxe in terrace river gravels. (1)


<1> Neil Aldridge, 2009, Letter from Neil Aldridge with details of sites from the Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group (Unpublished document). SKE16635.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: Neil Aldridge. 2009. Letter from Neil Aldridge with details of sites from the Bulletin of the Wealden Iron Research Group.