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Monument details
HER Number: | TR 35 SW 39 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Palaeolithic handaxe and other flint implements, surface finds near Finglesham Farm, Eastry |
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Summary
Palaeolithic, or possibly Lower Palaeolithic, handaxe found on the surface of a field in 1974 at Finglesham Farm, on Chalk geology. 51 Lithic implements including knives, blades, scraper and hammer stones found during fieldwalking near Finglesham Farm, Eastry
Grid Reference: | TR 332 541 |
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Map Sheet: | TR35SW |
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Parish: | NORTHBOURNE, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Finds
- DEBITAGE (Prehistoric - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- HANDAXE (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)
- HAMMERSTONE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
- RETOUCHED FLAKE (Later Prehistoric - 4000 BC to 42 AD)
Full description
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TR 332541. A Paleolithic handaxe was found on the surface of a field near her home by Mrs Stead of Finglesham Farm near Eastry. (1 - See illustration card) (2). It is large and sub-triangular in plan-view with a thick cross-section. It has a sharp narrow point (slightly damaged), a partly cortical butt and is heavily-patinated white all over. Subsequent field walking recovered 51 flints, all surface finds, on the crest of a small hill. These latter were all of Later Prehistoric type, including pot-boilers, hammerstones, debitage and scrapers. (2)
<1> Gaunt, J., 1975, Palaeolithic hand axe from Finglesham, Kent. (Article in serial). SKE29868.
<2> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], S-6, No. 16, p 151 (Monograph). SWX6569.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Article in serial: Gaunt, J.. 1975. Palaeolithic hand axe from Finglesham, Kent.. Kent Archaeological Review 39: 252-253.. |
<2> | Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. S-6, No. 16, p 151. |