In store Maidstone Museum is a collection of flints (Accn. No. 8.52) from 'Leavers', donated by the late Mr. W.H. Golding of Kingshill, Kingskerswell, S. Devon. (Leavers is the area centred TQ 643510 situated between Hadlow Common and Goose Green). It was made during the closing years of the 19th c. and comprises an Abbevillian hand axe, 2 Thames picks, discoidal thumb scrapers, blades and unworked flakes. Leavers was formerly part of the extensive Golding holdings in E. Peckham. No information on the exact provenance of the finds was gained locally, but they came probably from extensive gravel workings in the area. (1) TQ 645509 (Approximate reference) Mesolithic implements found at Leaver's Farm, East Peckham, now in Maidstone Museum, are as follows: 1 Tranchet axe, 2 Picks, 1 core, 60 blades/flakes, 36 scrapers and 9 other implements. Information from D B Kelly. (2) See separate record for Palaeolithic handaxe from same locality.

<1> Maidstone Museum Acc. Book. (OS Card Reference). SKE46389.

<2> Oral. Mr. L.R.A.Grove Curator. (OS Card Reference). SKE48011.

<3> Oral . Wing Comdr., Hadlow. (OS Card Reference). SKE47905.

<4> F1 CFW 18-FEB-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42631.

<5> CBA Res Rep 20 1977 Gaz of Me & Upper Pa Sites in Eng & Wales 148(J J Wymer) (OS Card Reference). SKE38846.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 65 SW 18 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3466.