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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 56 SW 33
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Microlithic flint tool from Meenfield wood, Shoreham

Summary

Microlithic flint tool from Meenfield wood, Shoreham


Grid Reference:TQ 5123 6149
Map Sheet:TQ56SW
Parish:SHOREHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Upper Palaeolithic to Early Mesolithic - 40000 BC to 7001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • MICROLITH (Upper Palaeolithic to Late Mesolithic - 40000 BC? to 4001 BC?)

Full description

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(TQ 51236149) Microlith from Shoreham, one of many 'worked' flints found in the Darent valley. Few of the implements have been preserved. Col Meates holds a few classifiable examples found by Greenfield and himself but no exact record to relate their provenance has been kept. No field action. (1)


<1> E Greenfield's Card Index in Dartford Mus 'Darent Valley 942.23 General' (OS Card Reference). SKE41528.

<2> Col G Meates (Hon Corr) (OS Card Reference). SKE39080.

<3> F1 ASP 07-Oct-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41989.

<4> Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 33 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2990.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: E Greenfield's Card Index in Dartford Mus 'Darent Valley 942.23 General'.
<2>OS Card Reference: Col G Meates (Hon Corr).
<3>OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 07-Oct-64.
<4>XYBibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 56 SW 33 - October, 1964. [Mapped feature: #55208 find, ]