Palaeolithic handaxe from above Barming Asylum, surface find by B Harrison in c. the 1880s, precise find location shown on Harrison's map, held at Maidstone Museum (1), may be the same one as documented by Roe (2). 2 Lower Palaeolithic handaxes found at Barming, "above the asylum". Harrison's map shows two find spots that match this discription. Artefacts found on Hythe Beds, near edge of terrace 5 geology. (3)

<1> Harrison B, , 1888, Map prepared for Professor Prestwich in connection with Prestwich’s paper published in 1889 (Map). SKE51559.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p139 (Monograph). SWX6570.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text] (Monograph). SWX6569.