Findspot record TQ 56 SE 93 - Shoreham, Wick Farm (aka Weike Farm or Week Farm): surface-find of a Palaeolithic flake

Summary

Shoreham, Wick Farm (aka Weike Farm or Week Farm): surface-find of a Palaeolithic flake

Location

Grid reference TQ 55450 61110 (point)
Map sheet TQ56SE
County KENT
Civil Parish SHOREHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Full Description

Shoreham, Wick Farm (aka Weike Farm or Week Farm): surface-find of a Palaeolithic flake, recorded by Roe in the 1960s in collection of British Museum (2). Locality identified in late 19th century as a site of "plateau implements" (mostly, although not always, non-artefacutal "eoliths") on the North Downs Clay-with-flints plateau (1).


<1> Prestwich J, , 1892, On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. , Pl. 18 (Article in serial). ske55095.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p175 (Monograph). SWX6570.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Article in serial: Prestwich J, . 1892. On the primitive characters of the flint implements of the Chalk plateau of Kent, with reference to the question of their Glacial or Pre-Glacial age. . Journal of the Anthropological Institute 21: 246-262. Pl. 18.
  • <2> Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p175.

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Record last edited

Sep 15 2022 4:18PM