A small Ach. flint ovate handaxe, 2 7/8" long, with a white patination, found near a rabbit hole on Otford Mount, and now in Maidstone Museum (Acc. No. 123/1965) was the gift of the finder Master Timothy Owen, of 58 Well Road, Otford, who came on it by chance in 1965 whilst walking up a footpath on the west side of the hill. Owen indicated the findspot at TQ 5360059614. (1) TQ 536596 Findspot of a Lower Palaeolithic handaxe in Chalk geology. (2) Otford, Otford Mount: Palaeolithic handaxe, surface-find near a rabbit-hole, later listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (4).

<1> Inf: Mr. L.R.A. Grove, Curator, Maidstone Museum. (OS Card Reference). SKE44427.

<2> F1 ASP 01-SEP-66 (OS Card Reference). SKE41879.

<3> Field report for monument TQ 55 NW 35 - September, 1966 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2825.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK2.10 (Monograph). SWX6569.