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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 56 SW 24
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Undated quern, pottery and flint implement

Summary

'U' quern, pottery and flint implement

Grid Reference:TQ 5207 6477
Map Sheet:TQ56SW
Parish:EYNSFORD, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • QUERN (Undated)
  • LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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(TQ 5207 6477) Long. 0 11' 4", Lat. 51 21' 40", just below 300 ft. O.D. Pottery fragments, worked flakes, three quern pieces, etc., were found on the surface of a ditched bank by Greenfield and G.M Meates in 1947. (1)

The siting falls within a bracken-covered area through which passes a lynchet (see TQ 56 SW 15) The potsherds, which were unclassified, together with the other finds, were not preserved, and no further details of the site were recorded. (a) (but see TQ 56 SW 22) (2)


<1> E. Greenfield's Card Index in Dartford Museum File Darent Valley, 942.23, General. (OS Card Reference). SKE41549.

<2> Oral: Lt. Col. G. Meates Hon. Corr. (OS Card Reference). SKE48044.

<3> F1 ASP 02-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41899.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 24 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2987.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: E. Greenfield's Card Index in Dartford Museum File Darent Valley, 942.23, General..
<2>OS Card Reference: Oral: Lt. Col. G. Meates Hon. Corr..
<3>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 02-OCT-64.
<4>XYBibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 24 - October, 1964. [Mapped feature: #54679 find, ]