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AXE
Unique ID: KENT-B85D62
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: With Rosie Donmall
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
Period from: NEOLITHIC
Date from: Circa 4000 BC
Date to: Circa 2000 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 136 mm
Width: 59 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1965
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Tonbridge and Malling (District)
Parish or ward: Hildenborough (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ5647
Four figure Latitude: 51.20092
Four figure longitude: 0.231516
1:25K map: TQ5647
1:10K map: TQ54NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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