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Monument details

HER Number:TR 24 NE 19
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Early Bronze Age flint axe

Summary

early Bronze Ageflint axe


Grid Reference:TR 2983 4668
Map Sheet:TR24NE
Parish:TILMANSTONE, DOVER, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Associated Finds

  • AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

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It is now in the Royal Museum, Canterbury (Acc No. RM.7774). In 1960 an EBA flat axe with incipient flanges was found whilst ploughing in a field on Eastling Down Farm TR 29834668. (1)


<1> F1 FGA 07-JUL-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42900.

<2> Kent Messenger, 8-APR-1960 (OS Card Reference). SKE45933.

<3> Royal Museum Accession Register. (OS Card Reference). SKE49346.

<4> A Hadfield, Eastling Down Farm, (finder) (OS Card Reference). SKE32796.

<5> Field report for monument TR 24 NE 19 - July, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5660.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: F1 FGA 07-JUL-64.
<2>OS Card Reference: Kent Messenger, 8-APR-1960.
<3>OS Card Reference: Royal Museum Accession Register..
<4>XYOS Card Reference: A Hadfield, Eastling Down Farm, (finder). [Mapped feature: #45855 Find, ]
<5>Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 24 NE 19 - July, 1964.