Maplescombe valley: numerous Palaeolithic material (>10 handaxes, >10 flakes, and a possible flake-tool) recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2) in collections of various museums, mostly the British Museum (2). No info on circumstances of recovery but almost certainly surface-finds. Some Palaeolithic artefacts reportedly found by Benjamin Harrison in late 19th century from "driflint patches" at c. 400flint OD and lower down towards the base of the Maplescombe valley (1).

TQ 560643 Findspot of 12 Lower Palaeolithic handaxes, one retouched flake and 12 flakes in dry valley deposits in Chalk geology. (3)

<1> Harrison, ER, 1928, Harrison of Ightham. , pp 217 etc (see index) (Monograph). SKE55068.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p166 (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.