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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 56 SW 47
Type of record:Findspot
Name:Flint scraper (Mesolithic to Late Prehistoric) findspot from the Darent Valley, vicinity of Greenhill Wood, Otford.

Summary

Flint scraper (Mesolithic to Late Prehistoric) findspot from the Darent Valley, vicinity of Greenhill Wood, Otford.


Grid Reference:TQ 5392 6019
Map Sheet:TQ56SW
Parish:OTFORD, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Mesolithic to Late Iron Age - 10000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Finds

  • SCRAPER (TOOL) (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

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(TQ 53926019) Scraper, 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 Dartford Mus 'Darent Valley 942.23 General' (OS Card Reference). SKE41523.

<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 47 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3004.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: E Greenfield's Card Index 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 47 - October, 1964. [Mapped feature: #56419 find, ]