TQ 56 NW 128 - Swanley, Wood Street: finds of 8 Palaeolithic handaxes, three possible flake-tools, and 15 flakes

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Findspot record TQ 56 NW 128 - Swanley, Wood Street: finds of 8 Palaeolithic handaxes, three possible flake-tools, and 15 flakes

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Swanley, Wood Street: finds of 8 Palaeolithic handaxes, three possible flake-tools, and 15 flakes - circumstances of recovery unknown.

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Grid reference	TQ 53640 69560 (point)
Map sheet	TQ56NW
County	KENT
Civil Parish	SWANLEY, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District	SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 125000 BC)

Full Description

8 Paleolithic Handaxes and 20 pieces of debitage. [1] Held in British Museum, recorded by Roe in the 1960s (2) then listed in the Southern Rivers Project in the 1990s (1).

<1> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 2.38 (Monograph). SWX6569.

<2> Roe, D.A., 1968, Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites, p179 (Monograph). SWX6570.

Sources/Archives (2)

<1> SWX6569 Monograph: Wessex Archaeology. 1993. The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text]. NWK 2.38.
<2> SWX6570 Monograph: Roe, D.A.. 1968. Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites. 1-355. p179.